The sulphur mayfly is one of my favorite hatches all across the country. Just like an alarm going off in mid May these duns cover the screen door of my home that overlooks Big Stoney Creek in Edinburg. This hatch is so heavy that I’ve often planned many 3 day weekend trips to take advantage of these feeding trout. On the advice of the late Charlie Fox, when I developed a hint of orange dubbing in the Murray’s Sulphur Dry. I use this in size 16 and 18 for all of the sulphur hatches in the East and for all of the Pale Morning Dun hatches in the Rockies. I find that is equally effective on both the hatching duns and the spinner.
In the east the duns hatch late in the afternoon, becoming very heavy 2 hours before dark with spinners falling from an hour before dark until dark. The Pale Morning Dun hatch starts about 10am on many of the streams I fish in the Rockies.
Although there are often many trout rising close together, I do best by fishing to each trout separately.
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