Mother's Day Fly Yellow Sally

Overview

Designed by Umpqua signature tyer Greg Garcia, the Mother's Day Sally is an offshoot of his Mother's Day Caddis.

The Sally version adds an orange bead on the back of the fly to suggest an egg sack, imitating the egg-laying Yellow Sally stoneflies that show up on trout rivers in summer. Female Sallies return to the water to drop their eggs, often in the afternoon and evening, and trout watch for them over riffles and pocket water.

How to Fish It

• Riffles: dead drift it through riffles and pocket water where Sallies are fluttering.
• Evening: egg-laying flights often peak late in the day.
• Small twitch: a little movement can make it look like a stonefly dropping eggs.
• Tippet: 5X.

Choosing Color and Size

This listing is the Yellow Sally version in size 14, which matches most Yellow Sallies and is easy to see on the water.