Here is a PT Variant tied on curved hook with torax made of Emerger Thread.
This fly is very simple, easy and fast to tie and is working for trout an grayling for entire season, from Spring to Autumn.
Hook: G600BL size 12-16
Thread:Micro Floss body thread
Body: 3barbs of feasant tail
Ribbing: cooper wire
Tail:Coq de Leon Indio Rubion
These flies are among my favorite flies for nymph fishing. I use them almost all the time, in deep waters, fast waters and in muddy waters. These all around patterns are versatile and can be used for the entire fly fishing season.
Beside the colors of the bodies, texture of the materials and hot spots, the hook used for these flies assures their efficiency: short shank and wide gap offers a great contact with the fish during the drill.
Materials:
Hooks: Maruto Dohitomi D9626 BL #14-16
Thread:Textreme Micro Floss – yellow
Hot Spot Thread: Standard Thread 3/0 – fluo hot orange
Body: turkey biot in tan, brown and light olive colors
Tail: coq de leon: corzuno claro, flor de escoba and rubion
Torax: mad rabbit dubbing
Beads: Tungsten gold beads
The fly is identical with this one tied with standard hackle:
The difference between these two flies is that I use the fly tied with CDC on very clear and shallow waters.
The step by step is the same for both flies. The difference is in the hackle: for one I use chocolate dun hackle and for the other I use tan CDC feather:
Materials that I used:
Hook: Maruto Dohitomi D04 #12 -#14
Body Thread: Micro Floss – yellow
Body: Ultra Selected CDC -tan ( beige gold )
Ribbing: Pure Silk – brown
Tail: 4-5 pheasant tail barbs – natural brown
Wings: Lemon Wood Duck genuine
Hackle: Ultra Selected CDC -tan ( beige gold )
These pictures were taken from on one of the rivers that I love very much.
The place is very quiet and almost all the time there aren’t any fishermen on it.
The silence and majesty of the mountains makes you feel deeply connected with the river and all the elements of nature. When I’m there I forget about everything: job, car, town, people, pollution, problems… I’m completely disconnected from the social live. I’m only a man with his rod searching for the perfect cast.
Materials:
Hooks: Maruto Dohitomi D9626 #12-16
Thread: Pure Silk – yellow
Body: Black Rabbit Dubbing
Hackle: black hen feather
It is a great fly for grayling and trout.
This fly is one of my favorite Mayfly for fishing in cold and fast flowing rivers.
This Mayfly is working great in May and June on Sava river from Slovenia.
I like to make the body with CDC because the transparency effect of this material is unique.
Here is the step by step:
Materials that I used:
Hook: Maruto Dohitomi D04 #12
Body Thread: Micro Floss – yellow
Body: Ultra Selected CDC -tan ( beige gold )
Ribbing: Pure Silk – brown
Tail: 4-5 pheasant tail barbs – natural brown
Wings: Lemon Wood Duck genuine
Hackle: Whiting –Herbert Miner saddle – chocolate dun color
Super Long Hair is a new material from Textreme Italy. At a first glance you are impressed by colors, hues, brightness and transparency. When having it in your hand you immediately notice that the fibers are flexible and delicate as well as strong.
At the beginning I was skeptical about the density of the fibers. They didn’t seem to be enough. I admit that I was used to working with cactus chenille and other synthetic chenille that are denser. After I started using it I liked the fact that the material is fixed on a thin core and the fibers are arranged mainly just on one side so that they can be worked very easily with during tying.
I tied a few shrimps and realized that the density of the fibers is exactly what it need to be: dense enough to give volume and sparse enough to allow it to move well in water. The core of the material lays down well giving making an excellent body.
Here are a few photos of the material:
I tied a few patterns for sea trout and other species of salt water and here is what I came out:
I can definitely say that it is a very interesting and pleasant material to work with. It gives you ideas and lets your imagination fly. Strong and nicely colored, this material became one of my favorite. I consider it a must for tying these types of streamers and other flies for salt water.
Those who are interested in buying this material can find it on www.troutline.ro in fly tying section with brushes,chenille and braid
One material that I like very much to work with is the CDC. On the market you’ll find a lot of tools that help you work with Cul de Canard feathers. I worked with a lot of models and types: PetitJean clips, paper clips,foam blocks etc. but the best seems to be the Vosseler Xpert Tool Clip. I tried this tool right after visiting a fishing exposition. I saw this tool in the hands of a great German fly tier. He used it very easy, fast and without wasting material.
The tool has 3 grip levels
Fixing the feathers
Cutting the barbs
Grip down the barbs
Forming a hackle loop:
Working with marabou:
Working with deer hair:
Here you can see a very good grip even for a lot of hair:
Catgut, a natural absorbable suture is obtained by longitudinally slitting the intestinal submucosa of sheep and goat, twisting the ribbons and joining them in wet condition giving monofilament finish. Catgut have 2 colors: natural or plain (ivory -cream color) and Chromic (dark brown color).For a long period, catgut was the most common material for the strings of harps, violins, and as well as other stringed musical instruments.
Catgut is a great fly tying material and lies tied with catgut looks very realistic.
Here is a few pictures with nymphs tied on size #10 and #12
Flies tied with size #16 and #18:
A simple and very efficient method to increase the visibility for small CDC dry flies tied on #16-22 : adding a small bunch of white CDC barbs in front of the wing.
In certain cases I use yellow or pink instead of white, especially at sunset when the light and the shadows become metallic.
Here is the step by step:
Materials for this fly:
Hook: Maruto Dohitomi D04 BL #16
Thread: 70Denier Olive
Body: Devaux yellow thread for bodies
Tail: coq de leon indio claro
Torax: mad rabbit dubbing
Wing: CDC Khaki Campbell feathers
Hi-Vis: white CDC barbs tied in front of the wing