UTC Ultra Wire SM

The UTC Ultra Wire SM is a wire for building Copper John Nymphs, rib on czech nymphs, emergers, fully dressed salmon flies and a lot more. Wire in general is good to have available for a variety of patterns: I would keep a gold and a silver if I could only have two colors. I have tied up on a couple of different size hooks to show how it compares to the thickness of the hook.

Mustad 94840 #18Dai-Riki 135 #16

Wrapping two different colors makes a good segmented body for small nymphs

TMC 100 #22

Partridge Klinkhamer X-treme #14

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)

Simple Pheasant Tail Nymph Variation

Posted on 4 June, 2013 by Håvard Eide mallard mustad pheasant tail sheer utc

Hook: Mustad 94840 #12
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Black
Tail: Pheasant Tail, Hare’s Ear Plus Chocolate Brown
Rib: UTC Ultra Wire Small Olive
Wing: Mallard Flank

This is a variant of the Simple Pheasant Tail Nymph from yesterday: only added a bit of Mallard Flank on each side. When it gets wet it will stay next to the body and give a bit more life to it.

Simple Pheasant Tail Nymph

Posted on 3 June, 20133 June, 2013 by Håvard Eide mustad nymph pheasant tail sheer utc

Hook: Mustad 94840 #12
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Black
Tail: Pheasant TailHare’s Ear Plus Chocolate Brown
Rib: UTC Ultra Wire Small Olive

A very simple nymph that doesn’t take much material or time to tie up:

start with tying in the rib at the end
dub the hook until the eye
add the pheasant tail forward
dub behind the pheasant tail
drag the pheasant tail back to the end of the hook
wrap the rib forward to the eye
tie off

I realized the last time I was in a shallow river that I only had weighted nymphs that went straight to the bottom: tying up this together with some variants on the same theme to not be there again the next time!

mustad

UTC Ultra Wire SM

Sunday Tying

Green CDC & Deer

Simple Pheasant Tail Nymph Variation

Simple Pheasant Tail Nymph

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