Green Drake

The Green Drake imitates Ephemera guttulata, one of the largest North American mayfly species, whose late-spring hatch is one of the most spectacular events in American fly fishing. Theodore Gordon, often called the father of American dry-fly fishing, tied one of the first patterns for this fly in the early 1900s. The spinner stage of Ephemera guttulata is known as the "Coffin Fly" - named after a separate pattern that Walt Dette and Ted Townsend tied in black and white in 1930, inspired by the clothing worn at a funeral.

The Green Drake is fished dead-drift during the short but intense hatch of Ephemera guttulata - an event that regularly tempts large, otherwise wary trout into careless rises to the surface.

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