Step 1. Insert bead onto hook. Wrap 12 wraps .015 lead and insert into bead.
Step 2. Tie on a piece of small copper wire at the bend of the hook.
Step 3. Tie on a piece of yellow floss at the bend of the hook.
Step 4. Wrap floss forward to ¾ point and tie off.
Step 5. Tie on a biot on each side at the ¾ point. The tails should extend ½ shank length.
Step 6. Wrap copper wire from the bend of the hook, securing biots on both sides.
Step 7. Dub a thorax the size of the bead.
Step 8. Tie in soft hackle making 1 or 2 wraps.
Finished Yellow Sally
The Yellow Sally (also know as the Little Mormon Girl) hatch is one of the most important, if not the most important hatch, on the Lower Gunnison River. The Yellow Sally is the only stone fly I know of that emerges in the water. I have noticed the emergence mainly in the mornings. They always seem to come off in the tailouts of pools, almost down into the tongue of the run. My favorite method of fishing is a sally dry with this nymph as a dropper in the top of the tailout. They start coming off in large numbers around the 1st of June. A lot of the times there can be heavy stone fly activity where there is no action on stoneflies, I will put on yellow sallies and have a wonderful day. I fish sallies through August. The past few years Dave Baker and I had some great fishing on the lower Gunnison using sallies.
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