Rusty Rat

Hook: TMC7999 #1/0
Thread: UNI 6/0 Red
Tag: UNI-French Medium
Body: first half Lagartun Silk Floss, second half peacock herl
Rib: UNI-French Medium
Wing: Squirrel Tail
Hackle: Whiting Rooster Saddle Grizzly

The Rat series are classic salmon patterns that many variations and adaptations, this rusty rat I haven’t done before because I haven’t had the peacock sword, but with some in house I have to do a series of this as well. The whiting hackle is long and vibrant and will generate just the right movement in the water. A pattern that I should take down to some trout-size hooks as well, not just these big irons!

Silver & Squirrel Singel

Posted on 6 January, 2015 by Håvard Eide salmon silver squirrel tmc7999

Since I worked through some of this pattern on the double hook I need to get some singles done as well: I start on #1/0 and work myself down to #8 on the TMC7999 salmon hook, tying up 2 of each size so that I have some to choose from when I’m in the river.

Silver & Squirrel Double

Posted on 5 January, 2015 by Håvard Eide B280 dryfly floss french gp grizzly kamasan mylar partridge patriot rooster saddle squirrel uni whiting

Hook: Kamasan B280 #4&#8, Partridge Patriot #8
Thread: UNI 6/0 Red
Tag: UNI-French Medium Oval
Tail: GP
Body: underbody of UNI-Floss, UNI-Mylar #16
Rib: UNI-French Medium Oval
Wing: Squirrel
Hackle: Whiting Dryfly neck, Rooster Saddle Grizzly (depending on size)

A pattern on facebook got me in the direction of this fly, a grey&silver some might call it, but I used what I had to create this double on different hook sizes.

The all-silver body combined with a thin wing and trying to have a sparse hackle will make this sink quickly in the current and give a lot of visual feedback. I’ll tie this one up on singles and on tube as well, but I’ll do that later, for now I’m on a double rush!

The head on the smallest one did not come out very good, but it will catch some fish anyway:

Blue Charm Spey

Posted on 1 January, 20151 January, 2015 by Håvard Eide alec jackson bronze duck floss french lagartun mallard silk spey spirit river squirrel uni

Hook: Alec Jackson Spey #1.5 Bronze
Thread: UNI 6/0 Black
Tag: UNI-French Oval Medium, Lagartun French Silk Floss
Body: UNI-Floss Black
Rib: UNI-French Oval Medium
Hackle: Spirit River Spey Hackle Bright Blue
Wing: Squirrel tail as underwing, 2 layers of Mallard bronze shoulder over

A fresh start of the new year brings a large variant of the Blue Charm to this great spey hook from Alec Jackson! The squirrel underwing on this is generous to make the wing layer of Mallard sit nicely, that is also why the head became rather large, but not much one can do about that. I chose to not have a topping over it all, but for the next tie-up I’ll add that as well. I would also need some more of the blue spey hackle soon, or get a heron substitute to make some more of this for my box.

Happy New Year to all the readers I have here on dryfly.me!

Blue Charm Double

Posted on 29 December, 2014 by Håvard Eide french gp hen kamasan keough saddel squirrel uni

Hook: Kamasan B280 #4
Thread: UNI 6/0 Black
Tag: UNI-French Oval Medium, UNI-Floss Yellow
Tail: GP
Body: UNI-Floss Black
Rib: UNI-French Oval Medium
Wing: Squirrel Tail
Hackle: Keough Hen Saddle

A slightly larger double hook was in the vise today: the Kamasan B280 #4 is a very solid hook that you can trust for big fish! The blue charm came toghether quite nicely today: the wing aligned nicely with the tail and the head was even and smooth.

Alignment of the wing and tail: not very important for the actual fishing, but I did enjoy getting it aligned like this.

Bottom view:

squirrel

Rusty Rat

Silver & Squirrel Singel

Silver & Squirrel Double

Blue Charm Spey

Blue Charm Double

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