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  • Umpqua Fly Emerger Wet

    €2.95

    Umpqua Fly Emerger Wet
    SKU: NFD9868

    Sizes 16 (BWO) and 18 (PMD)

    “I created the BARR EMERGER in 1975 after a frustrating day fishing a Pale Morning Dun hatch on Nelson’s Spring Creek in Paradise Valley outside Livingston Montana.

    There was a great hatch, and it seemed like every fish in the creek was rising to them. I was frustrated because not only was the Light Cahill I was fishing catching nothing, the trout were not even taking the real duns.

    They were eating little yellow specs off the surface. I was baffled. I saw a trout “accidentally” eat a real dun, which it promptly spit out. It was obvious these trout had eaten duns that had hooks in them and learned to avoid high floating dry flies.

    At my vise that night I created the PMD EMERGER. I am still fishing it to this day as well as a BWO version.”

    – Signature Tyer John Barr Umpqua

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  • Umpqua Fly Stealth Link Mercer

    €4.95

    Umpqua Fly Stealth Link Mercer
    SKU: NFD9852

    Callibaetis & PMD
    Sizes 14,16, and 20

    “A couple of years ago, fishing a pale morning dun emergence on a favorite stretch of northern California’s Hat Creek, I was shocked to experience the hyper-selective rainbows refusing my Missing Link. Not just once, but day after day!

    This led to time on the stream observing the behavior of the natural emergers the fish were taking, as well as collecting some samples of those same emergers in a small net to look at more closely. Initially I was stumped, not seeing much that would explain the fish’s reticence to take my old favorite.

    But slowly, after scrutinizing a larger number of takes, a slight pattern difference emerged.

    It seemed that the fish had enough naturals to choose from that many were keying in on emergers still attached to their shucks, insects that were truly helpless for several seconds as they drifted on the surface.

    Collecting a few in this stage, I noticed the segmentation of the emerging bodies was quite pronounced, and it was easy to imagine that the clinging shuck would wiggle a bit as the insect struggled to free itself.

    Not needing to reinvent the wheel, I simply added a two-part soft shuck to my Missing Link, and substituted a quill body in place of the original’s thread and Flashabou abdomen.

    Those Hat Creek fish never knew what hit ’em! To be fair, I still use the original Missing Link a lot…but when I have a tailwater or spring creek situation where I know I’ll need my A-game, the Stealth Link comes out first.”

    – Signature Tyer Mike Mercer

    Versions:
    Umpqua Fly Stealth Link Mercer Callibaetis 14
    Umpqua Fly Stealth Link Mercer Callibaetis 16
    Umpqua Fly Stealth Link Mercer PMD 16
    Umpqua Fly Stealth Link Mercer PMD 18
    Umpqua Fly Stealth Link Mercer PMD 20

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