#32 Parachute

Hook: TMC 518 #32
Thread: UNI 17/0
Tail: Soft hackle
Body: Fly-Rite Extra Fine Poly
Wing: Poly Yarn
Hackle: Whiting Bronze Brown

As small as they get: going for the same pattern as the Aurivilli but had to change to the brown hackle since my white/black one didn’t have small enough featheres. It is possible to do parachute down in this size, it is just a matter of getting small enough material to be able to tie it on. And: to have the eye-sight to get the hackle on there, I really should get a magnifier when tying #30 and below, it gets hard on the eyes!

3mm Beads

Posted on 26 May, 201327 May, 2013 by Håvard Eide bead knapek mustad tmc

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

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.

UTC Vinyl Rib NYM

Posted on 26 April, 201326 April, 2013 by Håvard Eide dai-riki rib tmc utc

I have covered the UTC Vinyl Rib MDG earlier, this time it is the larger Nymph version that is wrapped on two of the same hooks and in addition on the TMC 2457 #8 hook to show how this size will appear on the different hook sizes.

Dai-Riki 135 #16

TMC 2488 #20

TMC 2457 #8

UTC Vinyl Rib MDG

Posted on 16 April, 2013 by Håvard Eide knapek rib tmc uni utc vinyl

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.

D-R 135 #16

TMC 2488 #20

Knapek Midge Pupae #10

Here the Knapek is tied with a body of red UNI 8/0 body before wrapping the rib

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#32 Parachute

3mm Beads

Adult Midge #22