How do you fish your RS2-pattern?

[shoebop 0]

That's news to me that adult Baetis return to the water like that. I wonder now if there are other mayfly species that do that also.

[Obi 0]

Guys,

 

thanky for the replies and in particular for the great links you supplied.

 

Does anybody use RS2's with a clear white glass bead? What's your opinion on that glass-bead-version?

 

 

Cheers, Obi

[Piker20 0]

I received one in a swap and it looks the buisness. I haven't fished it yet but it looks great.

[flytire 0]

Does anybody use RS2's with a clear white glass bead?

mercury rs2

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=bead+head+rs2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=QeipUYXbBOy40QGqpYGYBw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=775#tbm=isch&sa=1&q=mercury+rs2&oq=mercury+rs2&gs_l=img.3..0i24l2.9262.12172.0.14056.7.7.0.0.0.0.61.371.7.7.0...0.0.0..1c.1.15.img.EWsHdAk5SfU&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47244034,d.dmQ&fp=1ff30c2776b38db0&biw=1600&bih=775

[Bruce Norikane 0]

Hairwing,

 

Wow, I never thought of using the RS-2 as a diving BWO. Suddenly the wing makes perfect sense.

 

Sometimes I tie a flashback PT with a long tag of flash sticking up like a wing. I saw a similar photo of a female BWO underwater. To me, the female looks like a pheasant tail nymph with a flashy vertical wing. The male in your photo looks more like an RS-2.

 

Since baetis mating flights and egg laying often overlap the emergence, it's great to cover both with one pattern.

 

I read somewhere that Rim Chung felt the dry fly style tails on the RS-2 were important to balance the fly. He felt that helped it drift like a natural.

 

Thanks,

 

Bruce

[hairwing 0]

Hairwing,

 

Wow, I never thought of using the RS-2 as a diving BWO. Suddenly the wing makes perfect sense.

 

Sometimes I tie a flashback PT with a long tag of flash sticking up like a wing. I saw a similar photo of a female BWO underwater. To me, the female looks like a pheasant tail nymph with a flashy vertical wing. The male in your photo looks more like an RS-2.

 

Since baetis mating flights and egg laying often overlap the emergence, it's great to cover both with one pattern.

 

I read somewhere that Rim Chung felt the dry fly style tails on the RS-2 were important to balance the fly. He felt that helped it drift like a natural.

 

Thanks,

 

Bruce

 

 

 

 

 

"Wow, I never thought of using the RS-2 as a diving BWO. "........

 

Neither did Rim.

 

 

 

 

[DUBBN 0]

 

Hairwing,

 

Wow, I never thought of using the RS-2 as a diving BWO. Suddenly the wing makes perfect sense.

 

Sometimes I tie a flashback PT with a long tag of flash sticking up like a wing. I saw a similar photo of a female BWO underwater. To me, the female looks like a pheasant tail nymph with a flashy vertical wing. The male in your photo looks more like an RS-2.

 

Since baetis mating flights and egg laying often overlap the emergence, it's great to cover both with one pattern.

 

I read somewhere that Rim Chung felt the dry fly style tails on the RS-2 were important to balance the fly. He felt that helped it drift like a natural.

 

Thanks,

 

Bruce

 

 

 

 

 

"Wow, I never thought of using the RS-2 as a diving BWO. "........

 

Neither did Rim.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wow.