Tim’s Hex Emerger; invaluable during the actual emergence of the Hexagenia Mayflies.
Materials list:
Hook: Size 6 – 3XL
Thread: 3/0 Brown Thread
Tail/Shuck: Medium Pardo – Coq De Leon
Rib: Grizzly Hackle
Body: Yellow Polypropylene or you can use dubbing
Overbody: Deer Hair natural
Thorax: dirty yellow dubbing
Hackle: Grizzly saddle dyed tan or grizzly and brown
Wing: Deer Hair natural
A classic Michigan trout fly. Tim’s a master tier utilizing simplicity, if video’s where around in the ’60s this is what they’d look like.
I can’t wait to be testing beast flies out on the upper Manistee next week!!