Nick’s Soft Hackle PMD emerger — $2.25

Last spring Nick Nicklas, who has been tying flies and guiding for BRF over 30 years gave us his new PMD Soft Hackle Emerger to try. Nick explained that he’d kept this one under wraps last year. Nick never likes to release a fly to us without using it for a year or two. We had to admit at first we thought Nick’s fly was a bit bright and tied with too much sparkle to imitate an emerging pale morning dun mayfly. We were wrong. This fly works not only on the ultra-selective Firehole trout, it also works its magic on big trout on the Henry’s Fork, Missouri, Bighorn and area spring creeks.