Blue Quill Parachute

On eastern US freestone streams in early spring, when Paraleptophlebia duns start appearing in the slower pools and back eddies on grey, chilly, often drizzly days — before the water's warm enough for faster-water hatches.

The parachute post lands the fly flush and upright in the calm water where these duns actually ride, giving the true low dun silhouette Blue Quills show — without the skate a standard hackled dry picks up even in gentle current.