Butterfly

Canadian hitch/surface salmon fly

SalmonSurface & waking

A Canadian surface fly fished hitched or on a riffle hitch to create a V-wake across the surface — not quite a dry fly, not quite a wet, but something that Atlantic salmon on the Canadian rivers will come up for with explosive enthusiasm.

Fish this when

Warm summer days on Canadian Atlantic salmon rivers in low, warm water — when fish are active near the surface and a waked fly outperforms the standard swung wet.

Why it works

The hitched Butterfly skates across the current creating a surface V-wake that salmon rise to from considerable depth. The rise to a surface salmon fly is one of the most dramatic takes in fly fishing.

Naturals it imitates