Hook: Dai-Riki 135 #16
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Brown
Body: Sheer 14/0 Brown, Danville Waxed Black wrap
Thorax: Taimen Beaver Dubbing Brown
Wing: 2xCDC feathers
Simple, but very effective pattern. Trying to tie some with a very slim body this year to see if that can’t give some results.
Hook: Daiichi 1260 #16
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Black
Tail: Mallard Flank White
Body: Taimen Beaver Dubbing Brown, UNI-Mylar #16 wrap
Wing: 2mm foam
Hackle: Whiting Bronze Brown
Was looking at some emerging Ephemerella patterns for this one; it will sit very low in the surface and the mallard flank tail will give it life. The foam wings together with the large hackle will make this sit in the surface for a long time. One of those that will end up filling a row in my box later this summer.
Title: What Trout Want – The Educated Trout and Other Myths
Author: Bob Wyatt
ISBN-10: 081171179X
ISBN-13: 978-0811711791
Pages: 240
As a flyfisher there are many myths and superstitions that can easily be brought out if something doesn’t go quite as we expected: the trout is smart, the fly pattern has been “fished-out” on this river, the trout is selective and many more: Bob Wyatt goes through these and and then some in this book that takes a sober view on trout fishing and what it is all about. This is not a book so much about specific patterns and great SBSs on how to “get” more trout – it brings the discussion down to the basics about what flyfishing is about: presentation/behaviour, keeping patterns simple, less is more, triggers.
The book is well written and is a easy read; some good patterns are presented in-between stories and well-presented cases on some of the myths that comes with trout fishing. If you think that you have to tie flies that are semi-realistic in order to get any trout: this book is for you. It is also for anyone to listen to the experience Bob has gathered when it comes to presentation and simplicity. This is one for a rainy day and a good cup of coffee.
Check out some patterns from Bob Wyatt over on danica.com
Hook: Mustad 94840 #16
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Black
Tail: Mallard Flank White
Body: Turkey Biot Lt. Olive
Thorax: Peacock
Wing: Mallard Flank Olive
Hackle: Whiting
First time tying this pattern, got the wings and body ok done, the hackle could have been a bit shorter, but I don’t think that is a problem.
As you can see here: I got the wings nicely separated, but with the long hackle I could have had some more material in the wings to fill it out a bit.
When you start tying flies and photographing them with a macro lens then all the minute details comes out and I could have re-done this until I got it correct, but I mainly tie for fishing purposes (and to learn new things) so all the flies I put up here have a good chance of ending up in my flybox. The pictures here are all a part of my path to learning more about the different patterns, so I will add the not-so-good as well as the good flies here: it is all a part of the journey to become better.
The Hends Superfine is one I have a few colors of and use if I need to create a thin body for dryflies, or for slender nymphs/wetfiles that needs a bit of body.
As you can see: lot of thin, long fibers that makes it easy to apply to the thread
Maybe not the best of pictures, but you can see that you don’t need much to cover the thread
Dubbing a Mustad 9480 #14: it makes a slender body that doesn’t take much space
One of the good properties of the Superfine is the ability to create bodies on very small hooks: here is a TMC 518 #30 with only a few strands of the dubbing to create a tiny body
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