Description: The Fool's Coal Stone is designed as a Pteronarcy's imitation, but effective for many dark stoneflies and even helgrammites. SLF dubbing and rubber tails/antennae provide maximum movement. This pattern reflect light like a natural and is weighted to be fished along the bottom.
What it imitates: Stoneflies and hellgrammites.
When to fish it: Because of a Stonefly's lifecycle, this fly can be fished effectively year-round. Stoneflies can take up to 4 years to develop from egg to adult so there are always some in the water. The nymphs crawl along the bottom and eventually out from the water to hatch on land where they are safe from hungry fish. The trout follow them in their migration which is why this fly is so productive drifted along the bottom.
Where to fish it: Any stream, river or freestone river that is well oxygenated, clean, cold and briskly moving.
How to fish it: Dead drifted.
Approximate turnaround time to complete order: 2 weeks
MINIMUM ORDER FOR THIS FLY IS 1 UNIT - 1 UNIT CONSISTS OF 1/2 DOZEN FLIES
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