Chubby Chernobyl Stonefly
This large terrestrial dry fly pattern is a Chubby Chernobyl Ant tied in the colours of the Alpine Stonefly found on many of our high country rivers. The Chubby Stonefly can be fished as an imitative pattern during a stonefly hatch and also as a larger attractor pattern when searching up a river.
$4.40 each
Dry
Creek
Lake
RiverSpecies
brown trout
rainbow troutWater Types
Fast/broken
Glides
Medium/riffles
StillwaterFly Uses
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The Chubby fly fishes well as a single dry and with a nymph beneath it. Due to its size it can hold up heavy nymphs if need be.
We recommend fishing this fly on 5X tippet.
It is tied on a barbless hook.
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