Central Alberta Fly Tying Club: Extended Body Parachute Mayflies with Rick Miyauchi

Monday, March 13, 2023

Extended Body Parachute Mayflies with Rick Miyauchi

A few weeks ago, Rick Miyauchi offered to do a second fly tying session for our group! There was a request to do extended body flies and another to do a session on parachute flies. Well Rick was able to put the two tying ideas into one session! After tying a basic Klinkhammer like fly so everyone could learn how to tie a parachute onto a fly, the group learned how to tie extended body flies. We focussed on green and brown drakes. That was an excellent decision because we see brown drakes on the Red Deer River and green drakes can be found in so many locations on flowing water in Alberta. Once everyone got the hang of tying an extended foam bodies using a long narrow sewing needle; adding a post, thorax and parachute hackle made the green and brown drake mayflies look like an imposter that will definitely fool the wary brown trout and suspicious rainbows and cutthroat trout.

Thanks Rick for the fantastic instruction. We all learned a lot!

Next week, Garnet Clews is our guest presenter. Garnet asks you to bring 70 denier olive thread, thin resin like Loon Flow or something similar, thin brown thread (the thinner the better) and a nail knot tool!