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I have been getting pumped about my late May annual camping/fishing trip and just found out the road in to the lake has been closed due to a road washout.....I’m REALLY BUMMED. I have ten days off and the trailer loaded....but don’t know where to go...what may be a good alternative .... looking...

Based on a fly from Bojan Novakovic. A beautiful tie, his used guinea for the tail and a sparse wing; I subbed hackle fibers for the tail to improve floatation and a few more turns of Mearns (very similar to guinea but better suited for smaller flies than the guinea I have) to beef up the wing...

A little different shellback, to improve durability; wrapping it with the rib would work, too. hook - Dai Riki 320 #14 thread - Danville 6/0 black tail/shellback - mallard flank dyed woodduck rib - small wire copper body - peacock herl hackle - grizzly dyed hot orange (undersize by 2) mash...

This one borrowed some genetic code from the Skip Nymph. Quick & dirty version, using butts from tail/shellback for legs. hook - Dai Riki 060 #14 thread - Danville 6/0 tan underbody - non-tox .020 rib - x-small wire gold tail/shellback - pheasant tail abdomen/thorax - dubbing tan wingcase...

Can anyone recomend a Callibaetis emerger pattern that is "reasonably" successful and easy to see. My eyes are not what they used to be. Tall order I know.