Emerger with Shuck

Recipe – DC Shuckster

Shuck

• Hook – Long shank, light wire, size 8 to 14
• Thread – 6/0 caramel or light brown
• Tail - Brown Biot
• Body – Brown heat shrink
• Collar – Brown/Green Web Wing of similar
• Legs – Brown rubber

 Emerger

• No hook
• Thread - Green or color to match the emerging fly 
• Wing – Web Wing or similar (white or off-white)
• Collar – Grizzly or white saddle feather
• Legs – White/Black spotted rubber

Taking Gary LaFontaine’s claim of an air bubble causing a nymph to rise to the surface and emerge I have gone one step farther and developed the DC Shuckster.  This nymph/emerger semidry pattern as it is designed to float has both the nymph shuck and the emerging fly with air inside both to hold it right at the surface.  Fish this fly anywhere you would any other emerger, but especially in surface film or foam.