Fishing that BWO hatch hard, with all the “right flies” and not connecting?  Has it happened to you?  It sure has to us - more than once.

Most often for us it’s been due to some flaw in technique - that nails us more often than not.  Occasionally it’s due to being close - but not right - in our fly selection. 

The point really came home to me a few years ago fishing on a perfect fall day on Rock Creek over near Missoula.  It was cool (around 52-54), drizzling, cloudy, no one else around (first week of October).  There was what I thought  to be a BWO hatch coming off, but they weren’t having any of my emergers or duns, and I tried essentially everything in the box. 

My son wandered up and we finally thought to grab a couple of these bugs - low and behold they were a bit larger (16ish) and more a dirty brown that the olive bodied mayflies we were throwing.  You know the story - we changed over to our parachute mahogany pattern, and bingo, we were on to fish.

We’re going to spend a few days looking over some of the basic, practical, and necessary information you need to know about Mahoganies.

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