How to Fly Fish Blue Winged Olive Dry Flies Fall 2018

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Learn why awesome may fly hatches in the Fall make for great fly fishing but that doesn't mean it's easy.
If enough Blue Wings emerge at the same time, it makes for an epic fishing day, but remember that you must cast with some precision and drift the artificial fly naturally and very close to the trout. In this video on the Provo River, a western trout stream, brown trout are rising continually to tiny size 24 Baetis mayflies, commonly called BWOs by some anglers. Fly fishers need to make repeated short accurate casts, in order to drift the dry fly naturally over selective brown trout rising to adult insects. Consider that with so many naturals floating down, the artificial fly needs to be an excellent imitation as well as placed where the trout can take it easily. Wild trout aren't lazy but natural instinct guides them to feed with minimum effort in some situations, especially when the insects are so tiny that wasted effort getting to them would be counter productive. This type of fly fishing seems relatively simple at first glance but in a river full of wild often fished over brown trout, you'd better have your act together or suffer humiliation when trout refuse your best presentations of excellently tied flies. How you present the artificial fly is equally as important as how well it imitates the naturals. Since the hooks are so tiny, you should play the trout carefully to avoid pulling the fly out. Granted it's good not to play trout too long, but ripping tiny hooks from their mouths isn't good either. The river is cold in late Fall, taking a little more time in playing the trout seems a reasonable compromise.

[@richludt2962]

Nice video. I’ve had good luck fishing a iron blue soft hackle down and across during a BWO hatch. I think it represents a drowned/still born/cripple BWO but I don’t care because it works!

[@danallan462]

Yes, Jim and I fish lots of drowned and cripples as droppers... Greg is more of a single fly purist.

[@rogerdckwrth]

Use a cripple pattern. Predators key on cripples while they ignore naturals.

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