Hook: Mustad 94840 #14
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Brown
Body: Hareline Turkey Biot Quills Lt.Olive
Wing: 2xCDC Olive
A simple, but very effective pattern that I have tied on anything from #12 down to #24, but mostly in sizes #14-#18. The variation possibilities on the body is great here and can be thread, dubbing, ultra wire rib on thread body and much more. Tie up to match different colors and sizes, it can’t go wrong
It is january, but the weather is more like early April: 7 degrees and sun before I went out. Have tied a lot of new flies lately, and mainly tubes, that I needed to see how would work when they were fished. The day was beautiful with so many people on the beach: even some barbecue going on (unheard of at this time of year), and the weather changed into a cloudy afternoon.
We did see 2-3 fish up in the surface, but nothing would take the fly.
Some new flies was tested and I got some input on what I need to do – one thing I needed the most was to add a bit of weight to the big hair-winged tube flies, those just didn’t fly right on my #6 rod
As mentioned: nothing would take, but I did find some potential great spots that is close to town!
Tail: Foxtail Suburst yellow, Templedog hot orange
Body: UNI Floss, Lagartun french tinsel
Hackle: Spirit River Schlappen Black
This was a freestyle with what I had on my table, but I really like how it came out: the fire in the tail will be a very good attractor for the salmon/seatrout and it will have good movements once it gets in the water. Will create some more of this color combination, and maybe with blue/lime tail as well.
Wing/Tag: Arctic Fox, Templedog
Body: Future Fly Signature Dubbing GGB Blue
Hackle: Wapsi strung schlappen grey/black
Got some new grey hackle that I needed to test out together with the black I already had: I think the combination looks good, and together with the yellow tag it will go nice in the water. This is one I will test out for seatrout as well.
A new style that I haven’t explored much before: buzzers. Got a bottle of Bug Bond today and had to open it up and test out how this works. As you can see on these first attempts the layering and application of bug bond to make it even is not very precise, but another few batches of these and they should turn out ok.
Stripped peacock quill body:
UTC wire rib:
UNI Mylar rib:
A short one with UNI Mylar body
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