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BWO for Roscoe??

I thought a BWO is never wrong so I did tie some for Roscoe.



And here one with the hackle cuted:



hook: B175 #14
Thread: yellow sheer 14/0
Tail: ginger fibers from a cock hackle
Body: peccary hair tinted olive with a pan-tone pen
Thorax: olive dubbing
hackle: of the neck of a waterhen


greeting

those fish are in for a rude awakening!!!!1

A really nice material selection, Ruard. The color combination and profile are excellent. Because I think the flies loosely called "BWO" in the US tend to be somewhat smaller than the English olives, when I copy your wonderful pattern I will use a smaller hook, fewer tail fibers and try to make the hackle a little less dense.

That's a really nice pattern, Ruard. I'd fish it with confidence on many of the streams around here. I especially like the top version.

Oh man... that looks very buggy.

Great pattern Ruard. I like the peccary. It has a very nice effect on the body. I would have to agree with tie2fish though. Most of the BWO I tie are in the #16-#20 range. These sizes might be hard to tie with the peccary. Then again, I have been involved in massive BWO hatches where the only way I could catch something was to go with a wet BWO pattern that was slightly bigger than all the naturals.

tie2fish wrote:A really nice material selection, Ruard. The color combination and profile are excellent. Because I think the flies loosely called "BWO" in the US tend to be somewhat smaller than the English olives, when I copy your wonderful pattern I will use a smaller hook, fewer tail fibers and try to make the hackle a little less dense.

The drunella cornuta is also called a BWO, is a size 14 or so, and appear in good number on the Beaverkill at roughly the time we'll be there we'll be there (we might be early.) In fact, the only really large hatch of them that I've ever fished was on Junction Pool one June morning back in the 80's. (They're common enough; I just don't see them often because I believe in arising at the crack of noon on my days off, and they're a morning hatch.)

See http://www.troutnut.com/hatch/3837/Mayf ... nged-Olive for a description.

Ruard's flies should work fine for them.

Good to know.

Thank you all for the nice words.

I tried four on a hook #16. Each with another hackle: neck of a jackdaw, uppercovert of a wing of a tealduck, uppercovert of a wing of a coot and neck of a magpie. The last one I liked the most. Here is a picture:



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Oh yes! That is marvelous.