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Peter McCallum

March Brown Emerger - Step by Step New
« on: 20/04/2009 at 19:04 »
This is my first attempt at a SBS so please be gentle with me   :z18

The March Brown Emerger

Hook    - I’ve used a partridge E1AY Barbless, but any lightweight size 12 will do.

Tail   - Origionally several fibres of deer hair, but I now use Moser Dust Fibre.
Thread   - Light Brown or whatever you prefer.
Body    - Light(ish) Hares ear, dubbed.
Wing   - Ginger(ish) Poly Yarn
Thorax   - Dark hares ear, dubbed
Hackle   - Red game or Furnace palmered over the Thorax – trimmed flat.

Step 1   - Start thread and catch in 4 or 5 deer hairs or a thin bunch of Dust Fibre as a tail.



Step 2 – Dub the thread with the hares ear and wind a slim, tapering body



Step 3   - Tie in a short length of Poly yarn over the body.


Step 4   -  Catch in a Furnace/Red Game hackle


Step 5      - Dub some darker hares ear onto the thread and wind a thorax


Step 6   - Wind 2 or 3 turns of hackle over the thorax


Step 6   - Whip finish then trim the hackle either a vee from the bottom or completely flat


Step 7   - The finished fly.


This is my most successful dry fly for big fish but it catches outside of March Brown time and has worked on lochs & Stillwater as well as rivers. Hope you feel it’s worth a try.

Sandy Nelson

Re: March Brown Emerger - Step by Step
« Reply #1 on: 20/04/2009 at 19:23 »
Now, thats a nice fly :z18

Sandy

 




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