This is my first attempt at a SBS so please be gentle with me
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.
