Western March Brown Nymph

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$2.75

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Mayflies

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M1901N-12

The March Brown also known as the Western March Brown nymph is a clinger that is the first mayfly to hatch in many western trout streams. They inhibit the fast waters of riffles and runs of the streams. However, on occasions they can be found in the slower to moderately moving water. Their hatches are usually not bountiful and may be short and dispersed. The duns hatch sporadically for a few hours and are seldom concentrated.

Most of their lives are spent down under or between the rocks on the bottom of the stream. But the Western March Brown nymph imitation can be effective when the nymphs are migrating from the fast to slower moving water to emerge. As with other nymphs, it is best to start a week or two before the actual hatch.

Presentation:

These nymphs crawl on the bottom to the slower moving water for purposes of hatching. Again as with other nymphs the Western March Brown nymph imitations should be fished on the bottom in a dead-drift fashion using plenty of weight ensuring that your fly will remain on the bottom. Bring the fly from the pockets of fast water into the seams and into the slower water immediately adjacent to the fast water. You may use a strike indicator but it may be more effective to fish the nymph imitation without an indicator. Simply add weight as necessary a few inches above the fly.

Cast up and across in the current seams and mend the line as necessary to keep your fly down on the bottom. After the fly has swung all the way around to the down and across position, bring it out of the faster water and towards the slower water existing in pockets behind boulders and rocks and along the banks.