Snowshoe Rabbit Emerger

Hook: Daiichi 1167 #14
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Yellow
Body: Fly-Rite Extra Fine Poly Golden Yellow
Wing: Hareline Snowshoe Rabbit Feet Olive
Ribb: UTC Ultra Wire Olive

I have had a couple of Rabbit feet around for a while but not actually using them for a pattern. This consists of only two materials: the dubbing and the snowshoe (except for the last one where I added a rib), I left the fly as sparse as I could by choice to see how it will behave in the river I’m heading out to tomorrow.

The Fly-Rite dubbing makes it possible to make really slender bodies for flies like this!

Small Bucktail Streamer

Posted on 17 June, 201317 June, 2013 by Håvard Eide bucktail streamer tmc uni

Hook: TMC 5263 #12
Thread: UNI 6/0 Black
Tail: Yellow Bucktail
Body: UNI 6/0 thread with UNI Mylar #16 rib
Wing: White Bucktail

Small bucktail streamers is a good bet to have for rivers and lakes, these small ones in #12 is a good baitfish pattern to have available. Last year I got my first Sik (Coregonus lavaretus) on one of these with orange tail, so this year I will keep a good supply readily available when I go back to the same lake to hunt the slightly bigger one.

Hends Spectra Dubbing

Posted on 16 June, 2013 by Håvard Eide dubbing hends nymph

This is one for the Czech nymps: long strands with lots of shine to it makes this a good dubbing for both small and large nymphs. I don’t keep too many Czech nymphs with me, but I always have them ready, both for fresh and saltwater fishing. My personal best for browntrout: 1.25kg, was on a Czech nymph in purple and red.

The long fibers will give a lot of movement to the nymph:

Applied to a UNI 6/0 thread and a TMC 2457 #8 hook

Two colors applied to the hook

Drag the fibers out with a toothbrush gives you long legs:

Since the fibers are so long you can also use it to form a tail, here on a Mustad 94840 #12:

Layer two different colors to form the tail:

Sunday Tying

Posted on 16 June, 2013 by Håvard Eide cdc deer mustad

Sunday morning and it is clouded and a fair bit of wind in Oslo today, too much for any dryfly fishing anyway! So, in preparation for the summers expedition to rivers and lakes a bit further north I’m tying up some of the CDC & Deer that I posted the other day. These are all tied on a Mustad 94840 #12 with some variation on colors based on the CDC I have available.

Music for todays tying session have been Pjusk: a ambient, nature inspired, band from Norway that is available on Spotify if you want to check them out.

Green CDC & Deer

Posted on 12 June, 2013 by Håvard Eide cdc hareline mustad sbs sheer

When I was out in the forest the other day, this fly was the one that the trout really couldn’t get enough of. It is easy to tie, can be varied in size and colors to match whatever you have hatching around you and it catches fish! The pattern is really simple with only dubbing, CDC and deer hair (or the equivalent). The CDC makes this fly come to life on the surface, and it really floats well…..

Hook: Mustad 94840 #14
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Green
Body: Hareline Hare’s Ear Plus Dark Olive
Wing Case: 2 Green CDC with Deer Hair on top

Apply dubbing to the hook
Tie in two CDC feathers and dub in over the thread

Make a loop of the CDC and fasten behind the hook eye. Make sure to make room for the Deer hair!

Add Deer hair on top of the CDC and a small amount of dubbing before tying of.

This is a general pattern that I will have a lot of for the comming summer: I will tie up in sizes #10 to #18 and vary the color between green, white and rusty-red (the CDC colors I currently have)

Snowshoe Rabbit Emerger

Small Bucktail Streamer

Hends Spectra Dubbing

Sunday Tying

Green CDC & Deer

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