Hook: Knapek Midge Pupae #12 Barbless
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Black
Body: Hareline Krystal Dub Caddis Green, UTC Vinyl Rib NYM Green
Head: Tungsten 3.0mm
More and more streams have some sort of restriction when it comes to fishing: max size, bag limit and of course: barbless. I’m tying up a row of barbless nymphs for the autumn trout fishing this year to get some experience with them. The color variations here with green/green and white/green really comes out good when they are wet
Hook: Knapek Midge Pupae #16 Barbless
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Brown
Body: Polychenille brown, Hareline Hare’s Ear Plus Chocolate Brown
Wing: White Yarn
Hackle: Whiting
This is more of a one-time experiment to see how the polychenille will act as a extended body on a mayfly. Have not tested out that before so it will be interesting to observe how it will behave in the river. The body together with the hackle and V-wing should be a ok profile on the water.
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
Hook: Knapek Midge Pupae #14
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Brown
Body: Taimen Beaver Dubbing – Grey
Wing: Hareline Premo Deer – Olive, CDC Dark Olive
Emerger with Deer wing – can be tied with even less hair to make it slender and light
The Vinyl Rib is great for segmented bodies on midges, stoneflies, nymphs, emergers and much more. This is the UTC MDG in chartreuse that I have tied on 3 different sizes to show how the segmentation will appear on different hook sizes. The Rib is slightly see-through and you get a nice effect if you wrap the hook with a different color to get a effect.
Here the Knapek is tied with a body of red UNI 8/0 body before wrapping the rib
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