Great Olive Winged Drake Emerger with Trailing Shuck

Emerger:

The Great Olive-Winged Drake emerging nymphs leave their burrows and swim to the surface. Once there, they abandon their nymphal skin and hatch into duns as they drift in the surface skim. The trailing shuck on the emerger closely resembles the freshly emerged dun with the nymphal skin still attached to the tail of the dun. Trout feed hungrily on the emerer at this stage of the hatch making the fly very productive.

Presentation:

The fly needs to be presented such that it is in a dead drift just under the surface of the water or you may bring it up from the bottom on the swing. An up and across on the swing presentation allowing the fly to come back to the surface at the end of the downstream drift would be the choice if there is much current flowing. Do this by stopping the rod tip at the end of the drift. In slower moving or calm water, the choice would be a down and across presentation. The objective is to imitate the nymphs swimming to the surface.