Guide
IllustrationDry Mayfly
Dry#8–12cream / oliveBest: May–Jun
When to use
Use it during the main mayfly hatch on limestone loughs and rivers when trout are visibly taking duns. On Irish western loughs, larger visible dries are often fished singly or dibbled high in wave, and detached-body styles are also used for dapping.
Imitates
Adult mayfly dun.
Team position
Single fly, or bob-style dry in local lough tactics during mayfly time.
Best methods
Dry, staticDibbledDapping
Dressing
- Hook
- dry fly, #8-12
- Thread
- black
- Tail
- grey squirrel tail hair
- Body
- 50:50 natural grey squirrel body fur and hare fur
- Hackle
- short-fibred badger cock at the tail and matching badger cock hackles through the front
- Wing
- grey squirrel tail hair, tied forward and split
- Head
- black thread head
Proxy: 'Dry Mayfly' is a category rather than a single standard named recipe. A documented Irish Dog Wulff-style dry mayfly dressing is used as the reference.
Pairs with
Retrieve & line
- Fished dry and static — floating line
- Wants a wave — fish it on the bob and dibble it
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