Learning my lesson about designating days to blog posts....barely making it here at 6:29pm. Enjoy!
First Fly For New Fly Wednesday is “Hogan’s Little Amigo” … This
fly comes in sizes #16-20 and Brown and Olive to imitate all the small olive
and Brown mayfly nymphs on the Lower Sac and Lower Yuba River. That said as I
developed the fly I have fished it all over the west. I have been working on
this fly for a long time. Basically as soon as the S&M came out and gained
mass popularity I figured I needed to come up with a new small mayfly nymph to
fish as everyone and their mother was now fishing my old one…the S&M. So I
tired all sorts of ideas, hooks, materials, natural, synthetic…you name it.
Always keeping in mind my tried and true may fly principals of may fly nymph
design, Trim profile, straight shank hook, darker wing case then thorax, and
minimal flash.
I have fished the Amigo side by side the S&M and it
fishes as good or better most days…some days fish want one or the other more
but they are different flies. The Amigo has more movement in the thorax
representing gills along with having a slim flash back with epoxy over it. It
also has natural fibers as legs which gives the fly a bit more action in the
legs. It is a different fly then the S&M and while my goal for my own fly
box was to develop a fly that replaced the S&M but it didn’t do that at
all. Many days I fish both at various times and catch fish on both nymphs. I am
currently working on a PMD to accompany this line and should get to fish it a
bunch this spring so look for some additions to this line as the years role
by…Here are some Pics.
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| Little Brown Amigo |
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| Little Brown Amigo |
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| Little Olive Amigo |
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| Little Olive Amigo |