Overview

The Purple dressing of Charlie Craven's Juju Baetis keeps everything that made the original a staple and changes the one variable that matters when light goes flat. The pattern came out of his Jujubee Midge, built to bring that durable, tightly segmented body to the small mayfly nymphs trout feed on all season. The profile is the same accurate small-mayfly outline; only the tone shifts.

Purple is a long-standing confidence colour in nymphs for a reason. Against a grey sky, in stained water, or down in the shadow of a deep run, it holds a dark, high-contrast silhouette where a natural olive can simply disappear. The thread and SuperHair body still finishes hard and glossy, so the segmentation stays sharp and the fly survives repeated fish rather than going ragged. Carry it alongside the natural version and switch when the light drops, the water colours up, or the fish have seen a standard baetis nymph all morning. Tied here in sizes 20 and 22.Read More +