Article: Lowly sow bug becomes silk purse of wet flies.(Sports)(Column)

Byline: Ed Dentry, Rocky Mountain News

The humble sow bug has been gaining a foothold in the fly-fishing door lately. A couple years ago, I found trout stuffed with the segmented underwater crawlers at Spinney Mountain Reservoir.

Then, a couple weeks ago, a sow bug pattern that has become all the rage at Montana's Bighorn River produced several fine rainbow trout for Ed Running, Charlie Russell and me on that renowned Blue Ribbon river (May 18 column).

Old Bighorn veterans, however, probably don't remember the bug, because its appearance is relatively recent.

"Sow bugs weren't even in this river," said Steve Hilbers, whose Bighorn ...

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