Fly of the Week #10- Catch's Conehead 20 Incher

Great new color! 

(This is my new go-to hat. Move over Patagonia)

With a zesty summer style, Simms comes at us with  new hat offerings.  We got to look over all the new and exciting, uber high quality product that the Bozeman, Montana company will be offering in 2017.  It's really difficult for me to wrap my mind around a new year being talked about like it's tomorrow, but I guess we are used to that by now with 2017 cars already on lots, the 2017 school year being several short weeks away and August in a couple of days!

If you check out the gear reviews, I bought a new boat patch from Simms a couple of months ago and I figured I might add that review now, since I am showing off the new hats I figured it would be a Simms day.

WBFC is going to be offering NEW Simms hats of various designs/colors with our WBFC logo embroidered!  look for them in the shop soon or online soon.
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Fly of the Week:

With the passing of the golden Stone season comes the influx of summer stones into the Yakima system.  Summer Stones, AKA Short Wing Stones, are prevalent throughout the catch and release portions of the river.  My entomological knowledge of the summer stone is very limited.  What I do know, is that the female can fly and the male can't- hence the common name- Short Wing Stone.  According to what I read on West-fly, the summer stone is related to the Golden Stone and the range of the species is, in the USA, primarily the Northwest region.  That is one reason you may have never heard of the Short Wing Stone.  If you are visiting and have the wonderful opportunity to fish the Yakima system, I would not be without the Conehead 20 Incher from Catch flies.  It's a super pattern, really heavy so it gets down deep fast, and it's a popular guide fly here at the shop.  I would run a two nymph rig, the Conehead up front and either a PMD nymph or caddis larva or pupa off back.  Mid day nymphing has been a good way to catch fish when the temperatures soar and the sun pushes the fish deep.

Recipe:

Hook: Curved Nymph 6-12

Thread:Black or Olive

Bead/cone:  Brass or Tungsten, sized to hook 

Weight: Lead wire, sized to hook

Tails: Dark Brown Goose Biots

 Rib: Gold or Brass Ultra Wire 

Floss Underbody: Dark Colored Dubbing 

Abdomen: Peacock Ice Dub 

Wingcase: Turkey Tail Quill with two strips of flash

Legs: Partridge and rubber legs

Thorax: Natural Hare s Mask Dubbing- olive or rust