BASALT – Autumn often yields some of the best dry-fly fishing of the entire year.Blue-wing olives are one of the few mayfly species that hatches bi-annually, during both spring and fall. For most ...

Before the adult blue-winged olive mayfly duns are seen floating on the surface, fly fishers can use nymph patterns below the surface. A simple setup with the fly at the end of the tippet ...

Although I do carry some beadhead blue-winged olive emerger fly patterns, I prefer most of my nymph emergers to be unweighted. I think the unweighted nymphs tend to well up in the current in a way ...

But if you look closely enough you’ll see the slow rise and long tail of blue wing olive mayflies lifting ... drown and require repeated dry fly dressing or shake to keep them on the surface. Flies to ...

Weighted versions of the pattern use a brass or tungsten ... you may want to trail a trusty pheasant tail nymph or blue-winged olive Barr emerger behind your dry fly imitation just in case there ...

Tied with peacock, it is suggestive of a blue-winged olive nymph. Tie it with light cahill body dubbing to suggest lighter colored nymphs. Try this pattern in tandem with a Brassie or a Copper John.

We see adults in hues pink through yellow, and the nymphs are typically rusty red in color. I consider these bugs the “medium” sized mayflies we encounter, compared to tiny blue-winged olives ... If I ...

Many nymph fishermen imitate the blue-winged olive nymph with fly patterns like the pheasant tail nymph, gold-ribbed hare’s ear, quill nymph, Baetis nymph, Downey wonder nymph, and Juju Baetis ...

We see adults in hues pink through yellow, and the nymphs are typically rusty red in color. I consider these bugs the “medium” sized mayflies we encounter, compared to tiny blue winged olives ... If I ...