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VTBob	June 2nd, 2009, 8:17 pm
Posts: 1	Great info and photos. Fishing Catskills for first time, didn't know what a blue quill was. Looks like an #18, will a sparkle dun tie work?
Wbranch	June 2nd, 2009, 11:39 pm
York & Starlight PA Posts: 832	Typically the emergence period for Paraleps (Blue Quills) has been over for at least three weeks in the Catskills. Any #16 - #18 fly with brownish gray body, slate gray wings, and dun hackle will work.
	Catskill fly fisher for fifty years.
Mayfly	June 3rd, 2009, 7:51 pm
santacruz argentina Posts: 7	This insect is a key to bearing in mind at the moment of working an imitation of this boss can obtain a good day of fishing. A fly of greyish tonalities with blue variations can guarantee a good imitation of this efhemeroptero
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GONZO	June 4th, 2009, 1:18 pm
Site Editor "Bear Swamp," PA Posts: 1636	Bob, Although Matt (Wbranch) is right about the early season Blue Quill (Paraleptophlebia adoptiva) emergence being well past, the Summer Blue Quills will hatch from now into the fall. All of the Eastern Blue Quill duns look about the same and are similar in size (about #16-18), but some of the summer (actually late spring to fall) species have very distinctive male spinners. Unlike the brown-bodied male spinners of the early season adoptiva, these have what fly fishers describe as the "Jenny Spinner" coloration: a brown thorax and whitish abdomen with a brown tip. The females have brown bodies. Look for the duns to emerge in side pockets, stream edges, and eddies from late morning into early afternoon.

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