If only I'd seen this pattern before June 4th and then, if only I'd taken time to tie a few, I might have been able to fool some spinner eating trout on one of my favorite BC lakes. When I got up to the lake a week ago, the lake was flat and here were a few trout rising here and there. There were callibaetis spinners on the lake surface, particularly along one reed line. I didn't have a spinner in my box(es). As always, Scott, wonderful pictures and description. Thank you!
Montezuma's Callibaetis Spinner
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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 bit.
hook - Dai Riki 320 #14
thread - MFC 8/0 sand
tail - grizzly hackle
abdomen - turkey biot callibaetis
hackle - grizzly (oversize by 1)
wing - Mearns (aka Montezuma) quail
mash barb, start thread at 2/3 mark, wrap to point above barb and create thread bump
strip off some hackle fibers, measure (hook length), tie in with wraps against the bump to splay/set angle
tie in (moistened) biot, notch-side down for ribbed effect; wrap to 2/3 mark, tie off/trim
tie in hackle
move thread to 3/4 mark and tie in quail by tip
wrap quail (keep the wraps tight against each other), tie off/trim
stroke fibers forward, divide evenly and set wing with cross-wraps
wrap hackle behind and in front of wing; tie off/trim, half hitch x 2, SHHAN
trim out hackle underneath
Regards,
Scott
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