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Continuing our series about strategies for Mahoganies….
A good friend who fishes Rock Creek in western Montana, as well as other rivers throughout Montana and the Park, has a different approach to fishing Mahogany dries. He notes that on Rock Creek, and several other waters in Montana and the Park, that BWO and Mahogany hatches may come off […]
Mahoganies - Another Great Fall Mayfly - Strategies Part 2
Continuing our series about strategies for Mahoganies….
When the duns are abundantly evident, we switch over to a Comparadun with a brown more than reddish body (mahogany) and a medium to dark wing (some of the Mahoganies in the Park seem to have a light colored wing). […]
Thinking now about strategies for Mahoganies….
As we suggested several days ago, a guide friend works the pre-emergence nymphing hard on waters he knows host a decent (or better) mahogany hatch.
He, as well as many who fish this hatch hard, favors a Hares Ear (with or without ribbing) nymph or soft hackle, more sparsely dressed. Given the […]
Continuing our series on Mahoganies….
As is often the case, a few hours after these mayflies emerge, spinners start their dance, mate, and the females begin almost immediately oviposting eggs on the waters surface.
Mahogany spinners have a reasonably impressive difference in male and female coloration - males (unlike the uniformly reddish-brown females) have a dark thorax […]
Continuing our series on Mahoganies….
As with most mayflies, mahoganies are very vulnerable during their emergence, and for some reason they tend to be long floaters before they fly off the water’s surface, often reported as 30 to 50 feet (off course water and weather dependent). Those big wings take a bit of time to dry.
Hatch […]
Continuing our series on Mahoganies….
Mahoganies are in the mayfly genus Paraleptophlebia, and at least 26 different species have been found in the Western US, with about 6 or 7 of those the most common. As we did - these bugs are often mistaken for BWOs.
Most Western fishermen call these stream dwelling mayflies “Mahoganies”, and they […]
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 […]
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