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Umpqua Humpy

Umpqua Humpy 
The "Humpy" is, perhaps, one of the top five, at least top 10, most popular dry fly attractor patterns. I could caveat that by saying "in the Western U.S." and save myself some discussion, but won't. While it is a "Western" pattern, it is one of those flies that just seems to attract fish wherever it is used. And, like any good attractor pattern, it is "buggy" looking without being exactly imitative of anything in particular.

Depending on the color chosen, it can represent a caddis, green drake, stonefly, "hoppers," beetles, and, in small sizes, blue-winged olives or even midges. As it is currently and commercially tied, it floats high, is comparatively easy to see, and makes an excellent indicator fly when fished with a nymph dropper. It has been called "arguably, the greatest surface fly ever devised" (Randall Kaufmann, Tying Dry Flies, Revised Edition [1995], p. 114), "Humpy, the Wonder Fly" (Charles Brooks, Larger Trout for the Western Fly Fisherman [1983], p. 124), "a pattern that most local fly fishermen would never be without" (Craig Mathews and John Juracek, Fly Patterns of Yellowstone [1987], p. 59), "the number one choice of some of our better fly fishermen" (Terry Hellekson, Popular Fly Patterns [1979], p. 31), and "a standard bearer...[whose] versatility has taken it around the world" (Pat Barnes, "Goofus Bug Evolution" in American Angler & Fly Tyer, Spring 1990, p. 56).

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SKU Ump_hum
Quantity in stock 40 item(s) available
Weight 0.20 lbs
Price: $1.99

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