RIO's Morrish May Day Color:Callibaetis and I am forever grateful

and I am forever grateful for that learning experience as it made me into a better fly designer

Primary: Dry Dropper / Light Indicator

and a purple body

" It's not often that Hogan Brown gets to guide his clients for dry fly eats until spring appears with March Browns

Let's just say Ken Morrish put hoppers on the map with this pattern

RIO's Morrish May Day Color:Callibaetis and I am forever gratefulAfter 40 years of observing mayfly duns on the water and comparing them to the flies we imitate them with, I had a simple but somewhat profound revelation. Duns sit on the water not in the water. Their bodies don't touch the water and their tails are nowhere near the surface. When fish look up at duns, there is nothing more than a light semi round impression of the insect, and that impression is far smaller than the impression of a typical parachute