FLY
Bead Head Nymph, Emerger, Mayfly, Mayfly Emerger
Gray Drake Bead Head Emerger (Siphlonurus quebecensis )
Tied by Brent Jones
Gray Drake Bead Head Emerger (Siphlonurus quebecensis ) recipe
| Hook | Lightning Strike Nymph/Hopper NH7 size 12 |
|---|---|
| Thread | Uni 8/0 , Gray |
| Weighted Wire | Lead .15 x10 turns |
| Tail | Teal Flank |
| Rib | Semperfli Wire 0.2 mm , Bright Silver |
| Abdomen | Hareline Turkey Biot Quills, Gray |
| Wing | Fawn Belly Hair |
| Flash | Wapsi Krystal Flash, Fl. Shrimp Pink KF513 |
| Prop | Wapsi Camel Dubbing, #135 Adams Gray |
| Hackle | Teal Flank |
| Collar | Wapsi Camel Dubbing, #135 Adams Gray Blended with Wapsi Prism Light Gray |
What the Gray Drake Bead Head Emerger (Siphlonurus quebecensis ) imitates
- Gray Drake (emerger) Siphlonurus
- Mayfly nymph (nymph)
Tied for: Trout (general)
In the old books
Original dressing as pictured in Marbury, Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892), Plate Q, No. 147. The photo above is a later tie, not the original.
Inside the vault every material on this fly opens to its own card, and you can save the fly to your own boxes.
