Hi-Vis Parachute

Hook: Tiemco 100 or 101 - standard dry fly hook

Size: 20-26

Thread: 8/0 gray

Tail: Grizzly hackle

Body: Beaver or Muskrat, gray or black

Post: Antron, white

Hackle: Grizzly

 

Notes: I fished and guided plenty of Trico hatches and catching 18"+ fish on the Missouri River on small flies is a lot of fun. Tying flies to imitate the later season Trico broods which were normally 2 or 3 sizes smaller than the early broods, was the real challenge. A Parachute Adams worked really well but the brown and grizzly hackle wound parachute style on a size #24 didn't work, so I eliminated the brown. While I came to this conclusion by myself, I understand that others had the same idea at about the same time. In my mind who figured it out first doesn't matter, it works and that's what matters.

 

This fly pattern is excerpted from Fly Fishing Montana's Missouri River.