Mar 09 2010
Emerging Grannom – Take 2
The first venture of the new trout season this past Saturday saw a little field testing of the new Grannom Emerger and, on watching it trundle confidently and buoyantly through a few turbulent white water riffles, I know that it will catch trout. A pity then that Saturday revealed no such trout, but then it is early season, and as such, rather hard.
It’s buoyancy was fantastic, however, one area which could have been improved on was the artificial’s visibility. Like most emerger patterns, it sits very low in the surface film, and so it becomes a little difficult to pick out the fly from the jumble of visual noise that accompany the faster, more riffley waters. Let’s add a little AeroDry.
Version #1
Version #2
Field testing continues this Saturday.
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Throw a few of those in with my next order please Gareth
Nice tying mate .
Dan
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Fantastic looking fly Gareth – bit on the large side for you though isn’t it?
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Dan, you got it mate
Thanks for the praise Neil! Glad you like it, but you’re right, I think it’s the largest fly in my fly box!
That’s made me think…what would the pattern look like on a #24 
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Like your thinking G, and a nice tie, but why dont we scale it down, keep the wing from CDC to Aerodry and alter the body.?
Not being picky mate I can just see good things developing here!!! 
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p.s I like that on your second tie, you have shortened your deer hair to the same length as the CDC, it looks much sweeter!!! keep playing this is great stuff!!!
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Cheers Grizz
I’m enjoying playing around with this pattern. Thanks for tips and ideas, I’m storing them all 
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I reckon if you tied in one of your nice biot bodies, and adjusted the size it would be a cracking Olive pattern!
What do you think? 
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Think you might just be onto something there G! Let’s see how it looks with a biot body then
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