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#20 Snowshoe Emerger

Posted on by Håvard Eide

dryfly.me.2014.01.04.snowshoeHook: TMC 2488 #20
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Brown
Body: Polishquills Stripped Peacock Eye Quill Orange
Thorax: Fly-Rite Extra Fine Poly Golden Yellow
Wing:  Snowshoe Rabbit Feet Aurivilli

The TMC 2488 is a great hook to tie these small emergers on: they are 3X wide – much easier to tie in on and will hook better than other hooks in this size. The Fly-Rite Extra fine dubbing again shows how good it is for creating a slim thorax on sub-20 hooks: it is my go-to dubbing that I should keep some more colors of available.

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Rusty #24

Posted on by Håvard Eide

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Hook: TMC 100 #24
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Brown
Tail: Whiting Bronce Dry Fly Hackle
Body: Fly-Rite Extra Fine Poly: rust
Wing: 2xCDC

Tying in on tiny hooks makes for good practice on handling threads and material that you can transfer to larger hooks once you are done: these sub-20 hooks makes you think twice on what you put on them. This particularly fly will be for my #1 rod in small rivers targeting trout

Pheasant Tail

Posted on by Håvard Eide

dryfly.me.2014.01.02.pt_goldHook: Allen S402BL #12
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Brown
Body: Pheasant Tail, UTC Wire gold
Thorax: Spikey dubbing, Lead, spikey dubbing, Pheasant tail
Bead: Tungsten Bead 3.0mm flysite.co.nz

My order of tungsten beads from flysite.co.nz came in over christmas, I have only had gold/silver/black beads before so this time I ordered in some additional colors to see how they turn out.  The pheasant tail is very easy to tie up and is one of those patterns you should have available if you target trout. It is also a pattern you can vary a lot: this one is weighted with lead in addition to the tungsten bead, but you can make it slim, light, fat, long, small and vary in the dubbing for the thorax (as I have done on these): keep some different variations with you on the river.

Silver:

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Black & Silver Salmon

Posted on by Håvard Eide

dryfly.me.2013.12.067.black_and_silverHook: Dai-Riki 899 #1/0
Thread: UNI 6/0 Black
Tag: UNI-French
Body:UNI Floss Black, UNI-French
Wing: Sunburst Yellow Foxtail, Orange Foxtail, Red Arctic Fox 3xl, peacock
Hackle: Black hackle
Head: JC, Black Ostrich Herl

Of the ones I have tied on this #1/0 hook I think this is the one I’m the most pleased with: the propotions are better, the overwing sits better in its place and the JC is a very good visual indicator. I need a better hackle to tie in on this and the tube flies that I’m starting to tie so I’m heading out tomorrow to do some pre-christmas present-shopping for myself ;)

Red Arctic Fox Streamer

Posted on by Håvard Eide

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Hook: Dai-Riki 899 #1/0
Thread: UNI 6/0 Black
Tag: UNI-French, UNI Floss Green
Butt: Black ostrich herl
Body:UNI Floss Green, UTC Mylar Tinsel, UNI-French
Wing: Red Arctic Fox 3xl, Blue & Green Tempel Dog, peacock
Throat: Red Arctic Fox 3xl, peacock
Head: Black Ostrich Herl

Got myself some packages of fox and tempel dog to experiment with streamers and tube flies. No particular pattern I’ve gone after, but rather see how these materials come together

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