This gorgeous native ephemeropteran dun has in the past received quite unfair press – and from fly fishers who should really have travelled more. Where this ephemeropteran occurs in numbers – rough stony freestone rivers mainly - the dun is eagerly taken. My personal experiences are on the Pennine rivers of the ‘Yorkshire Dales’.
This particular pattern lends itself to having a detached body in the style of my best selling ‘Mohican Mayfly’, and “Fulling Mills’ master of the Mohican” comes up trumps again with this pattern. So utterly convincing is it when sat on the surface that one of my fishing mates accuses me of taking advantage!
I go for a wing of Poly-yarn and para legs of CdC, both being hydrophobic means the fly spends more time fishing than being faffed about with drying. When eventually it has to be dried, use a silica-gel powder only, treated thus the fly will sit like the natural for many deliveries.
