Mohican Mayfly Fly

About the Mohican Mayfly Trout Fly

The Mohican Mayfly is a high-floating, ultra-visible dry designed to imitate the adult mayfly during a hatch. It’s built to sit proud on the surface film, so you fish it confidently as a top-of-the-water pattern rather than messing about subsurface. It is great imitation of adult mayfly!

Fishing Tips:

When to use it

• Peak mayfly season (May, into early June)
• Fish it during a visible hatch (duns coming off)
• Or when trout are looking up but not taking naturals confidently
• Early hatch: fish it static (dead drift dun)
• Mid hatch: you can add very slight twitches to suggest a struggling insect

If you’re early or late in the hatch, you may need to switch to nymphs or spinners, or even fish as a dropper with a nymph below the surface. When duns are coming off, this is prime time.

Presentation is everything

• Fish it dead drift like a natural mayfly dun
• Cast slightly upstream and allow it to float back naturally
• Avoid drag at all costs, as mayflies don’t skate about

Because the Mohican sits high and is easy to see, it’s ideal in broken water where tracking a low-riding fly is difficult.

Where to target

• Rising fish (obvious but key)
• Slower glides and crease lines
• Just off faster water where trout sit and pick off duns

If nothing is rising, you can try blind over likely lies, as big mayfly patterns often pull fish up.

Creator of this trout fly: Oliver Edwards

This trout fly is designed to be fished on Rivers & Streams, Still Water