Most folk use a Purple silk. I use Purple UTC 70 or Uni 8/0. I think the ones I tie are pretty and sometimes the fish do as well.

Brown
Ginger
CDL
Dark Dun
Brahma
Light Dun

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It looks close to Chuckar.

I am adding UV resin to the abdomen to some of my Soft Hackles and nymphs.

This size 18 BWO has a tail of CDL and I am using a Whiting 4B hen in Dun for the hackle.

Boarmountain wrote: ↑Fri Feb 22, 2019 10:14 am



Here is my Baetis flymph

That will do the trick.

redietz wrote: ↑Fri Feb 22, 2019 12:02 am A PMD isn't a Baetis. It's an Ephemeralla.

http://www.troutnut.com/hatch/5/Mayfly- ... -PMDs-BWOs

"Some even knew a PMD was a baetis." I stand corrected on the PMD.

I have talked to people from all over the country Bob. You seem to be the only person I know of that has an issue with what a BWO is. Or an issue with what other folk call a BWO. I did not dig too deep in to YouTube, but every video I saw knew a BWO was a baetis. Some even knew a PMD was a baetis.

I am at a loss for words. Latin or English.

BWO for me and anyone I have talked to for 40 years has been synonymous with Baetis or Baetidae.
A few responses to this thread threw me for a loop.

Sizes 18 - 22. Dry or wet hook. Body is rubber leg material that is used on the legs of many Stone Nymphs like the Pats Rubber leg, in olive. Hackle and tail can be Dun or Brown hen, or a combination of the two. Both patterns are fished in tail water and freestones. in the film or nymphed with spit ...