#32 Parachute

Hook: TMC 518 #32
Thread: UNI 17/0
Tail: Soft hackle
Body: Fly-Rite Extra Fine Poly
Wing: Poly Yarn
Hackle: Whiting Bronze Brown

As small as they get: going for the same pattern as the Aurivilli but had to change to the brown hackle since my white/black one didn’t have small enough featheres. It is possible to do parachute down in this size, it is just a matter of getting small enough material to be able to tie it on. And: to have the eye-sight to get the hackle on there, I really should get a magnifier when tying #30 and below, it gets hard on the eyes!

Foam Ant

Posted on 27 May, 201327 May, 2013 by Håvard Eide

Hook: Mustad 94840 #12
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Black
Body: 2mm Black Foam, Hends Superfine
Wing: Poly Yarn
Hackle: Whiting Bronze Brown, trimmed underneath
Thorax: Red-Brown fine dubbing of unknown origin

Aurivilli

Posted on 27 May, 2013 by Håvard Eide aurivilli cdc dry fly-rite mustad sheer whiting

Hook: Mustad 94840 #12, #14, #18
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Yellow
Tail: Soft hackle
Body: Fly-Rite Golden Yellow
Wing: CDC
Hackle: Whiting Bronze Brown

Getting ready for some fishing tomorrow with this family of Aurivilli in various sizes. The forest around Oslo should be primed with the last few days reaching up into the mid-20C and a bit of rain, so I will bring my bike out and check out some new areas that I haven’t tested out yet.

3mm Beads

Posted on 26 May, 201327 May, 2013 by Håvard Eide bead knapek mustad tmc

Bead-size to hook size: there are a lot of references out there that will tell you that this-size bead should match up to that-size hook, but I’m more of a visual guy and like to see how things will be when added to a hook. You can get beads from a lot of suppliers in different variations, but here I am showing a 3.0mm tungsten Bead bought from flysite.co.nz. The hooks presented here are the ones I have available at the moment, working on getting more styles of hooks available and will update this article as I get more.

A 3.0mm bead should be 3.0mm (!) from all suppliers, but you will of course get some small variations in the hole that the hook goes through, so if you get it on might be tricky in the top/lower level of what a bead should be used for in terms of hook size.

I will cover 2.5mm and smaller in a later post

Mustad 94840 #12

Mustad 94840 #14

Mustad 94840 #16

TMC 2457 #10

TMC 2457 #12

TMC 2557 #14

Daiichi 1260 #12

Knapek Midge Pupae #14

Knapek Midge Pupae #16

TMC 5263 #12

#30 Parachute

Posted on 17 May, 201329 May, 2013 by Håvard Eide fly-rite gamakatsu mallard poly-yarn sheer tiny whiting

Hook: Gamakatsu C12-BM #30
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Pale yellow
Tail: Mallard Flank White
Body: Fly-Rite Extra Fine Poly #0 Golden Yellow
Wing: Poly-Yarn
Hackle: Whiting Bronze Brown

Down to the smallest of hooks that I have, the Gamakatsu C12-BM #30 has a (relatively speaking) large hook-eye, making it much easier to deal with when trying to tie it on! The hackle was not very well tied in so you can see the thread got a bit loose behind the hook-eye.

The first time I’ve tied in both tail, dubbing, hackle and wing on a #30 hook, and all without magnification glasses ( I really need to get me some of those soon!). The hackle is the worst part of this: first of all you need to find something small enough, secondly the small hackles takes nothing to tear, so the process can be a bit hard on the eyes and concentration!

#32 Parachute

Foam Ant

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3mm Beads

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