Smoke Jumper

The Smoke Jumper is an emerging Baetis pattern.  The abdomen is very thinly dubbed or is just the tying thread on the smallest sizes.  The thorax is tied much fuller than the abdomen.  The cdc wing is pulled over the thorax and tied down just behind the eye of the hook.  Tied without a shuck and a range of body colors it is also used as a midge imitation.

Hook : Tiemco 2488 or similar; #18 – #22

Shuck : Amber zelon

Abdomen : Brown olive dubbing or tying thread

Emerging wing : Gray cdc

Thorax : Olive dubbing

Alan Bowers

Fly tied by Alan Bowers