Light Hendrickson

Tied by Warren Frank

Ingredients:

Hook: Size 16 dry fly hook

Thread: 8/0 Dun

Tail: A few brown antron fibers as a trailing shuck

Body: Yellow/gray mico chenille or dubbing

Wing: Light Dun CDC

Hackle: Light Dun, trimmed off flat underneath

Comments:

I fished this fly with success this past summer on the Rush River in Pierce Cty, WI. Early during the Light Hendrickson hatch, the fish are greedy and the fishing is easy. But during the last week or two of the hatch the fish get selective, and this is where this fly was very useful. It sits "damp" in the water film, and looks like a cripple emerger. The fish took this fly when ordinary dries wouldn't work.