The Nothing Fly

The Nothing Fly

contributed by Dan Cahill

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Materials

HookLow Water Salmon Size 6 - 8
ThreadBlack
TailBarred Widgeon
BodyPeacock Herl
WingPheasant Saddle

Notes

A small, drab, buggy follow-up pattern for steelhead that rise to and play with a waking dry fly but refuse to take it. Tied on a low water salmon hook about two sizes smaller than the waking fly, it is offered as a quick follow-up before the angler moves on.

Published in December 2010 (Vol 43 No 10), page 10.