Midge
Nymph
Rainbow Warrior
Lance Egan’s pearl-bodied attractor — small, bright, and unreasonably good on hard-fished water.
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- Hook size
- 20
- Imitates
- Attractor, Midge
- Best water
- Freestone River, Spring Creek, Tailwater
- Pack
- 12 flies
How to fish it
Fishing notes
Fish it on either dropper. Change to it when a natural nymph has been drifted through good water twice without a take — the switch from imitation to attractor often produces immediately.
About this fly
Lance Egan’s pearl-bodied attractor — small, bright, and unreasonably good on hard-fished water.
The Rainbow Warrior should not work as well as it does. It is a pearl flash body with a silver bead and a rainbow dubbing thorax, and it looks like nothing that lives in a river — yet on the most pressured tailwaters in the country it out-fishes careful imitations regularly.
The best explanation is that at size 20 it reads as a midge pupa with a gas bubble. Whatever the reason, it belongs in the box.
Key features
- Lance Egan’s design — pearl body, silver bead, rainbow thorax
- At size 20 it reads as a midge pupa carrying a gas bubble
- Consistently effective on the most heavily pressured tailwaters
- Bead head sinks it fast enough to fish as an anchor
- A confidence fly when natural imitations are being refused
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