Fly-Rite: Extra Fine Poly

The Extra Fine Poly Dubbing from Fly-Rite is made of polypropylene (on wikipedia if you want to read up some more on this) and is very good for slender bodies and dry-flies. The material is very easy to work with and goes on the thread with no problems. For now I only have this in golden yellow, but would like to get this in a few more colors to work with on emergers.

The individual fibers are very long:

It goes on the thread (here a Sheer 14/0) very easy and does not build up to something big and bulky

This is a Mustad 44840 #14, and I have tried to build up as small as possible: the body gets very slim and is just thicker than the hook.

Here you can see the reason why I like this on small flies: here on a Gamakatsu C12-BM #30, without much effort you get a body on even these small hooks

Rusty Suspender Midge

Posted on 15 May, 201315 May, 2013 by Håvard Eide cdc dai-riki danville midge sheer taimen

Hook: Dai-Riki 135 #16
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Brown
Body: Sheer 14/0 Brown, Danville Waxed Black wrap
Thorax: Taimen Beaver Dubbing Brown
Wing: 2xCDC feathers

Simple, but very effective pattern. Trying to tie some with a very slim body this year to see if that can’t give some results.

Brown Hatch

Posted on 14 May, 2013 by Håvard Eide beaver daiichi ephemerella foam hatch mallard sheer taimen uni whiting

Hook: Daiichi 1260 #16
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Black
Tail: Mallard Flank White
Body: Taimen Beaver Dubbing Brown, UNI-Mylar #16 wrap
Wing: 2mm foam
Hackle: Whiting Bronze Brown

Was looking at some emerging Ephemerella patterns for this one; it will sit very low in the surface and the mallard flank tail will give it life. The foam wings together with the large hackle will make this sit in the surface for a long time. One of those that will end up filling a row in my box later this summer.

Quill Gordon

Posted on 11 May, 201311 May, 2013 by Håvard Eide biot mallard mustad peacock sheer turkey whiting

Hook: Mustad 94840 #16
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Black
Tail: Mallard Flank White
Body: Turkey Biot Lt. Olive
Thorax: Peacock
Wing: Mallard Flank Olive
Hackle: Whiting

First time tying this pattern, got the wings and body ok done, the hackle could have been a bit shorter, but I don’t think that is a problem.

As you can see here: I got the wings nicely separated, but with the long hackle I could have had some more material in the wings to fill it out a bit.

When you start tying flies and photographing them with a macro lens then all the minute details comes out and I could have re-done this until I got it correct, but I mainly tie for fishing purposes (and to learn new things) so all the flies I put up here have a good chance of ending up in my flybox. The pictures here are all a part of my path to learning more about the different patterns, so I will add the not-so-good as well as the good flies here: it is all a part of the journey to become better.

Adult Midge #22

Posted on 10 May, 201310 May, 2013 by Håvard Eide midge sheer taimen tmc whiting

Hook: TMC 100 #22
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Black
Thorax: Taimen Beaver Dubbing, black
Hackle: Whiting

The ice is just gone from most of the small lakes surronding Oslo, and yesterday, while having a look at one location, I observed several large midges flying around. So: time to fill up with a range of these midges to be ready for the weekend.

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Fly-Rite: Extra Fine Poly

Rusty Suspender Midge

Brown Hatch

Quill Gordon

Adult Midge #22

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