In this video, Simon ties a great green drake ascending emerger. This fly is unique because it can effectively mimic so many stages of a mayfly emergence. This fly can effectively mimic an ascending drake nymph, an actively emerging adult, a crippled adult, or a spent adult. The fly can be swung, dead drifted, nymphed, fished solo in the surface film, or in tandem behind another dry fly. Our favorite way to fish this is to have it tagged behind a green drake adult. This fly is especially great for picky fish, when they do not want to eat a dun, or an emerger in the film, sometimes the ascending emerger is key. This is when we will run this behind a dry. Often the fish comes up to investigate the dry fly and ends up grabbing the tagged fly on its way down. Easy meals like this are things that trout just can’t pass up. This general template can certainly be adapted to just about any other mayfly species.
Hook: Ahrex FW562 Freshwater Short Nymph: Size 10
Thread: Semperfli Nano Silk: Brown
Shuck: Ep Trigger Point Fibers: March Brown
Body: Montana Fly Co Ostrich Plumes: Olive, Tan, & Brown and Uni XS Soft Wire: Olive
Wings: Hareline Swiss Straw: Brown
Hackle: Hareline CDC: Tan & Hareline Hungarian Partridge
Resin: Solarez Bone Dry
