Small dry
Caenis Spinner (sz 22)
Angler's Curse spent spinner
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Minute white-winged spent spinner of the Caenis fall — impossibly small, fished on the finest tippet.
Fish this when
Warm, still evenings when the Caenis fall — the 'Angler's Curse' — blankets slow glides and lake margins in thousands of spent naturals.
Why it works
Lying flush with sparse white wings, it matches the all-but-invisible naturals well enough that a fish sipping steadily among thousands won't single it out as wrong.
Naturals it imitates
spent Caenis spinner
Typical zone & fishable range
usually
Surface
Film
Subsurface
Deep
Setup sensitivity: medium
Quick facts
Tying difficulty
Advanced