Dark Green Drake (recurvata)
Ephemeroptera(Mayfly)
Family: ephemeridae Genus: litobrancha Species: recurvata Common Name: Dark Green Drake
Important recurvata Statistics
Size: 20-35 mm
Water Temp:
Hook: #8 4x long
Emerging: Dusk
Hatch Date: Late May to early July
Habitat: Cold streams with rich silty bottoms. Generally slow
SPECIES LIFESTAGE HOOK BODY COLOR WINGCOLOR TAILCOLOR recurvata dun #8 4x long 
dark brownish coarse texture dark brown mink recurvata spinner #8 4x recurvata emerger
- Dark Green Drake Comments:
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- Nymph
- Cast upstream of your target fish and pull off the bottom just in front of that spot.
- Emerger
- Fish emerger pattern in surface film with movement to suggest a fly trying to escape its shuck.
- Dun
- Use long float with twitches to imitate duns.
- Spinner
- Use dun pattern dead drift.
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Dark Green Drake (recurvata)
Ephemeroptera(Mayfly)
| Family: | ephemeridae |
| Genus: | litobrancha |
| Species: | recurvata |
| Common Name: | Dark Green Drake |
| Size: | 20-35 mm | Water Temp: | ||
| Hook: | #8 4x long | Emerging: | Dusk | |
| Hatch Date: | Late May to early July | Habitat: | Cold streams with rich silty bottoms. Generally slow |
| SPECIES | LIFESTAGE | HOOK | BODY COLOR | WINGCOLOR | TAILCOLOR |
| recurvata | dun | #8 4x long | | dark brownish coarse texture | dark brown mink |
| recurvata | spinner | #8 4x | |||
| recurvata | emerger |
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