Lunn's Yellow Boy
Lunn’s answer to the pale watery spinner — a yellow-dyed hackle stalk body and buff hackle points, pale enough to disappear against a bright evening sky, which is exactly the problem it solves. The naturals are almost translucent and a fly tied any darker gets refused.
Summer evenings when the spinners are over the water and the rises are quiet sips in the flat tails. Greenhalgh’s rule applies: pale watery females crawl down to lay and end up trapped in and under the film, so fish it ungreased and let it sit low.
The naturals are almost translucent and against a bright evening sky anything tied darker gets refused, so Lunn built this one pale on purpose. Greenhalgh’s rule applies as well — pale watery females crawl down to lay and end up trapped in and under the film, so it wants fishing ungreased and sitting low.
