A few months back, I wrote about a fly I’ve been tying and fishing that has, as Garrett Morris used to say on “Saturday Night Live,” been very, very good to me.
It’s nothing special — just a Gold-Ribbed Hare’s Ear made with dyed brown hare’s mask fur, a tail and wing case of pheasant tail feather fibers and two strands of pearl Krystal Flash, twisted tightly together and wound on as the rib. This little bug has consistently produced, as recently as Sunday, when it fooled a chubby rainbow that was sitting next to a big rock in a two-foot-deep run on a lower Hudson Valley stream that’s open to fishing all year.
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