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PMD Sparkle Dun

Pale Morning Dun stage-matcher
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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
Hook range#16–18
Quick facts
Tying difficulty
Intermediate