Tyin' My Cheeseman Emerger Variant 21May18

I learned this "guide fly" (aka so simple it's brilliant) from Chris Ramos - a gifted guide from SoCO, especially when it comes to coaxing the beasts from the Cheeseman Canyon section of the So Platte. My tie varies from his a bit and I'll show the olive whereas Chris often brings grey too. This is a thread-body micro-mayfly emerger for finicky (and deep) tailwater trout (but frankly I think they could be taking it equally for springtime emerging midges with trailing shucks)... who cares, it's easy to tie and regularly fools 20+" fish. The CE is easily in the top three of my "goto" tailwater imitations - at least when tied in my variation. ;) Here they are ready to attract our big tailwater cutbows.

Recipe/Ingredients... are very simple

• #22-#24 Tiemco 2487 hook
• 70 olive UTC UltraThread
• Head: black nickel tungsten
• Tail: 2 fiber of olive Krystal Flash
• Body: olive thread topped with straightened KF material
• Thorax:3/4 olive superfine mixed with 1/4 olive ice dub
• Wing: ~1/3 thickness of white Antron yarn

Here We Go...

The hardest part is getting the tiny 1.5mm bead on
#22 or #24 hook - stuff is small and fit is tight.
So... do that and then bind on the olive thread
and wrap back to the bend, then back to the
bead then back to the bend forming nice body

Fold a strand of olive KF in half and tie it in
at the end of the body/bend - leaving a
shank length of "tail"

Take out the twists of the KF strands as you
stretch it over the top of the body - then bind
KF strands in behind the bead and cut off excess

Tie in a piece of 1/3 thickness of a strand of
white Antron, leaving room for a thorax - trim it
clean near the bead (unlike the image here,
this is tricky unless you start with a clean end )

Dub on a very slim tube of the thorax dubbing
mixture of 2/3 olive superfine and 1/3 olive ice.

Wrap the dubbed thorax to about the same
size as the bead.

Whip finish then trim the Antron emerging wing
to just shy of the bend

Trim the KF "tail" to length ~ shank length

FINAL GR8 DRC CE