Blue winged olive

The Blue winged olive is one of those patterns that has frustrated many a fisherman and fly tyer over the years.

It is one of those flies that  can be so hard to imitate  at the tying vice, and many a fly tier has tried to come up with a successful pattern that will work.

There are so many good patterns out there to imitate the Blue winged olive all of which that will work at some time or another .

But it is such a frustrating  fly to copy as one pattern might work on a given night and go back the next evening and the same pattern might not get looked at .

It is also a fly that if you are not in the right place at the right time you will miss the rise as it is so short 

So a little local knowledge is a good thing as the fly does not hatch on the entire length of the river only in certain areas and if you can get to know these stretches of the river some fantastic sport can be had .

The blue winged olives really come into there own during the summer months of June July and august. 

And there are hatches of this insect  right through to the end of the season.

I have come up with a pattern for the Blue winged olive Emerger that has been very useful for me during a hatch of blue winged olives, it really works well at the start of the rise when the emergers are floating down the trout tend to take this fly before the hatch really starts up and I have caught some really good trout with this pattern .

 The body colour varies on this fly and can be an olive shade or brown colour as the season goes on I have had more success with the brown shade, but this could vary from river to river .