Above photo: CDC winged Caenis on a #20 Hanak 390 BL. I often tie the adult dun  on various light wire emerger hooks. The Hanak 390 is a wonderful frame to work with. Experiment with your lightest wire hooks for this pattern. (click on any photo for magnification) Is the Caenis Mayfly really “The Fisherman's Curse?” Honestly, that's a term I get tired of primarily because Caenis are not hard to tie, identify, or fish with. If you have never cast a midge or anything smaller than a size #18 to a rising fish, then I guess yes, you are susceptible to “the curse.”  So  I'm going to try to demystify this alleged curse for you in this entry so you don't have to spew expletives and have sudden-onset Tourette's during these very common hatches. It's not as spooky as everyone makes it out to be. Above photo: Vincent Marinaro in his book The Modern Dry Fly Code  reinvented the tactics for tying and presenting the “minutiae” he simply moved past the old semantics and old Ha...