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moorestowngreg
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March Brown
Green Drake....
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I say it, too, is a march brown.
Green Drake
March Brown
March Brown
I would have sworn a light March Brown (but, if it’s not a Caddis, I pretty much have a 10% chance of a correct identification). My phone and the gentleman at the Tackle Shack both said Green Drake, which I for some reason assumed would have been green 😂. I fished the closest color/size dry fly I had and caught, or missed, pretty much each rising trout I could get in range of. Pine Creek is very fishable in Gaines right now, but it’s pushing some volume. It’s supposed to rain the next three days, though.
BTW, besides green drakes, sulfurs were also coming off.
BTW, besides green drakes, sulfurs were also coming off.
6xAdams(Jones)
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Green Drake. Saw one on the roof of my son's car last Sunday as we were packing up to leave Indiantown Run. I kept seeing big light-colored body flies the couple hours we were fishing there and my son said there were no green drakes on that water, until we saw the one on his car.
tomgamber
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size 10 Yellow Humpy or Yellow Adams
bigjohn358
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Early green drake
shortrod
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No doubt it is a green drake.
The "Green Drake" name, like the "March Brown" name came from bugs in England. Our bug, the eastern green drake, will reflect a yellowish green color from part of the wings of the dun when light hits it just right. But otherwise, no green to be found on the bug mostly cream, sometimes yellow, gray and black,
redietz
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Actually, the same is true of the English fly, Ephemera danica. The two insects are very similar as well as being closely related.
The Brits call the bug itself the Mayfly -- mayflies in general are just called "upwings." "Green drake" more refers to the artificial pattern used to imitate the dun. The pattern to imitate the spinner is a "black drake" and is somewhat similar to a coffin fly pattern (unsurprisingly.)
PennKev
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A reasonable assumption but....
... then again March Browns don't hatch in March either (at least, not American ones).
Western Green Drakes are olive colored though, but also an entirely different Mayfly.
tomgamber
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on Penn's that fly is less than half the size you'll see.
dryflyguy
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Color shades can really vary
In spite of the one you're showing, I've noticed that green drakes on freestone steams tend to be smaller and more greenish
Especially on Kettle Creek, where I first fished them.
And western green drakes are dark.
I found them hatching on the frying pan river in September.
Never expected to see them so late in the year
And had no patterns to match it
I did have some large slate drake patterns, and had to use them.
And they worked reasonably well
In spite of the one you're showing, I've noticed that green drakes on freestone steams tend to be smaller and more greenish
Especially on Kettle Creek, where I first fished them.
And western green drakes are dark.
I found them hatching on the frying pan river in September.
Never expected to see them so late in the year
And had no patterns to match it
I did have some large slate drake patterns, and had to use them.
And they worked reasonably well
The other thing to observe is the thickness length of the abdomen (body). Guttalata have a thicker "tube" going back to the last section tails. Not the much tapered, triangular abdomen.
