Fly of the week: Hackle Stacker PMD

One of those individuals we really need to pay attention to is Bob Quigley.  He ties patterns of distinction and we all know what they are, hackle stacker, baetis cripple etc.  The PMD hackle stacker was developed some 15 years ago while Bob was guiding on the Fall River in California.  This week’s highlight is that same hackle stacker PMD.  If you spend any time at all on Silver Creek or the Henry’s Fork then your box should be filled with this pattern.  Finicky fish love to eat a hackle stacker fly.  The Pale Morning Dun is a trout staple and a great fly to fish.  They emerge mostly mid morning so the lazy angler won’t miss the all-important hatch.  The life cycles of the PMD are equally as important.  Riffles are the best places to find and fish the PMD nymph and emerger.  Learn to tie this great pattern and dispel those refusals that you are currently getting.  The key to the hackle stacker is the hackle being stacked. Simply tying the wing material up a loop of monofilament and then back down before tying the wing loop in place.

 

Charlie Bagley

{Recipe for the fly shown}

 

Hook: Daiichi 1100 14-20

Thread: light Cahill

Body: PMD superfine dubbing or died biot in

Tail: stiff dun hackle barbs

Wing: light ginger hackle

Stacker loop material:  very fine tippet material 7x or so

Thorax: PMD superfine dubbing or closed cell foam