Gray Wing Gray

Gray Wing Gray (GWG)



Materials List:
  • Hook: standard dry 16-20
  • Egg Sack: Montana Fly Co. Berry's fish dope - sunburst
  • Tail: wood duck
  • Body: gray turkey biot (hareline)
  • Thorax: Wapsi superfine dry fly dub - light dun
  • Hackle: griz saddle hackle
  • Cripple Post: Light dun CDC
  • Thread: 70 den. ultrathread - olive











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The GWG stands for Grey Winged Grey and was developed as a baetis pattern by Big R Fly Shop’s Sam Wike.  It was pointed out last fall by friend Bruce Berry that most of the fall baetis on the Missouri didn’t really look that olive;  they looked grey on the bottom and that’s what the fish see.  This is the cripple that we developed since then called the GWG to replace the standard BWO.