Quill body para bwo
Hook: Dry fly size 20
Tail: Dun hackle fibers
Post: Foam packing material
Body: Olive quill
Hackle: Dun saddle
This fly is a few years old and is the last one of this pattern I had in my bwo box. I wanted to post it just to prove that at least at one point in my life I could tie small flies. The last fly under a size 14 I tried to make looked as if I tied it wearing mittens. Hopefully there’ll be more trout fishing in my future to give me an excuse to tie small again.
That’s a nice BWO tie! here when I fished more for trout, my go to was a similar sized sparkle dun if fish were obviously dry, but a small soft hackle ied with a tiny dark duck wing covert feather worked as well as anything. I too use quills. in my case over biots, in my segmented small flies. Very nice tie again.
Gregg
Thanks!
Most of the places I’ve fished for trout never needed flies this small but I was always glad I had them on those rare occasions I needed them.
super-nice bug Acey !
interesting comment there on your reply to Gregg. generally speaking, my experience is trout don’t ‘need’ smaller flies than the real thing but they’ll be more willing to take them.
marc
Thanks!
What you say is true but the majority of my trout fishing is done on fast, infertile freestone streams where the fish aren’t particularly picky about flies. They just want a good drift.