by Bazzer69 » Wed Mar 28, 2018 9:23 pm
Most of the large Stoneflies I have observed crawl in their nymphal shuck and emerge in very shallow water. The adults apparently can live for some time and certainly the females oviposit after dark. A good imitation is a brown bodied rubber legs dredged along the bottom. I’m guessing the fish take them as dead adults
Since the imitation needs to be fished on a dead drift. I imagine a very large soft hackle, say a ten or even a eight might do the trick. In my experience a Simulator can wok at dusk. But for me this is not my style of fishing a soft hackle on a seven foot rod!
Barry
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