Steven Bird, wrote in the Soft~Hackle Journal about one of the largest mayflies in his part of the country and that is the Green Drake. Steven ties a wonderful Green Drake Flymph that I wanted to make sure to highlight here. You can find it below along with the materials list. Since I live in the Midwest, I never get to experience this mayfly, so I grabbed an excerpt from Steven writing about it in the Journal.
"Green Drake is the first big mayfly of the year to show. They are sporadic, initially. Maybe we’ll spot one drifting like a battle cruiser among the bum-boats of small Grannom riding the flow. Or perhaps we catch sight of one paddling through the air like a B-52 among the kamikaze sedges.
"The first Green Drake of the season we see is always an exciting event because we know when there’s one, there’s more to follow. Once the tap is open, trout know it. The fish were probably onto them even before we saw that one. We think: Oh Boy. It’s on!"
Materials list:
Hook: size 8
Thread: olive UNI 8/0
Hackle: golden olive grizzly
Tail: gadwall whisks dyed with yellow marker
Rib: yellow floss, doubled & twisted
Body: dark olive hares mask with a bit of Hareline Shrimp Pink Dub mixed in, thorax is dubbed on the floss rib, a bit of light olive dubbing behind the hackle collar
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