Emerger
PMD Sparkle Dun
Pale Morning Dun stage-matcher
Trout · GraylingFilm
Sparkle Dun emerger for the PMD — usually the most productive stage of that hatch.
Fish this when
Fish it during a Pale Morning Dun hatch on western spring creeks and tailwaters, once fish settle into picking off duns in the film rather than fully hatched adults.
Why it works
The flush-riding deer-hair wing and trailing shuck put it right at the surface-tension line naturals struggle through longest, so it reads as the vulnerable half-hatched PMD rather than the escaped adult heavily-fished water has taught trout to avoid.
Naturals it imitates
emerging Pale Morning Dun
Typical zone & fishable range
usually
Surface
Film
Subsurface
Deep
Setup sensitivity: medium
Quick facts
Tying difficulty
Intermediate