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Peacock Stonefly
By Dan Fallon
Hook: Dry Fly #6 to #14
Thread: Jet Black.
Tail: Tail and front antenna Turkey Biots.
Body: Wrap as many Peacock Herl strands as needed because
the herl glistens and creates life like stonefly underbelly.
Wings: Thin strip of black velcro textured backpack strap
to simulate adult stonefly wings tucked in.
Head: Black thread.
Legs: Important to use Peacock Herl as the tiny hairs are
nice and buggy realistic.
This black adult generic
Stonefly works well because its built with iridescent Peacock
Herl that makes its shimmer and catch the light as you let the
fly dead drift or carefully slowly twitch it allowing it to
drift as much as possible.
This pattern is
effective no matter if other Stoneflies are present as it is a
universal attractor when nothing else is working! Time of year,
resident hatches not happening all the usual excuses is great
for the Peacock Stonefly.
I usually work this
buggy pattern with a Nymph Dropper switching to Grasshopper’s
because these two patterns are universal around the world. I
have caught fish from Alaska to Vietnam with this setup. In my
fly box universal patterns include: Mice, Mosquitos, Black
Stoneflies and Grasshoppers. One cannot loose mastering
presentations of these universals.
By Dan Fallon
2014 ©
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