The Petitjean magic tool has been out for some time now and you will find it on the bench of many tyers. I have one myself and do use it on occasion to combine colors of marabou, CDC and to mix dubbing in with feathers easily. Marc put out a DVD to help explain the use of his tool when the product was released, and here is one of the flies from the DVD. All you need is the tool and 3 colors of CDC feathers to create a simple, effective and extremely quick tie.
More from one of my favorite tyers of late. Here is a concept brought to the mainstream by Gary Lafontaine years ago. I love working with CDC and tying caddis dries, so this is a perfect pattern for my dry fly box. I’ve bee tying and fishing quite a few CDC and elks lately with great success, but this is something I’m eager to try out.
We have a step by step of one of the incredible flies tied for the recent KOTV contest. It’s actually fairly simple once everything is broken down, and the patterns is quite realistic. Great job Clyde.
Hook: streamer hook sized to the size stone you want to tie
Underbody: lead wire
Tail: porcupine quills
Abdomen/Thorax: latex strips 1/4″ wide
Thorax: Ostrich herl
Legs: heat shrink tubing/gold wire
Eyes: medium mono eyes
Antennae: porcupine guard hairs
Wing Buds: transparency printed pattern then laminated
Color: waterproof markers
Lacquer: Sally Hansens Hard as Nails (nude)
I found this sweet pattern via the Fly Fishing The Ozarks Blog. The Hot Wired Prince is a hybrid of the classic Prince nymph and the Copper John. This looks like a great fast sinking nymph, and when coupled with a tungsten bead, it’s going sink like a stone.
Hook: Mustad 3906
Thread: 8/0 olive dun
Bead: Copper brass or tungsten
Tail: 2 Brown goose biots
Body: contrasting colors of soft wire
Thorax: Peacock herl
Hackle: Brown hackle
Wings: White goose biots
It’s finally here and a winner is in the wings. You can choose between the 2 finalist that have tied up some stunning realistic patterns. Good luck to both of the tyer.
I’m getting ready for a trip this weekend and one of the flies that is recommended was the Mickey Finn. I did up a step by step tutorial of the fly as a part of my Philatelic Fly Tying series a couple years back. Looks like I’ll have to hit the vise again tonight to whip up a small shoal of these. A couple interesting variations will be tied up as well including the St. Laurent, Mickey Blue Eyes, and the Mickey Finn Orange. Will post more on these variations in later posts. It’s a nice fly for all species of trout, salmon and bass.
Hook: 3xl or 4xl streamer hook size 2 - 12.
Thread: Black 8/0 (70 Denier)
Body: Silver Mylar Tinsel
Rib: Silver Oval Tinsel
Wing: Light Green Floss
Head: Black Thread - Optional painted eyes
Youtube doesn’t yet have any decent Mickey Finn videos, but there is one. It’s not a bad tie, but the quality of the video isn’t great for detail (I may need to start bringing out the video recorder myself. lol), but you get the idea.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DEuYwAqWhFg
Have at it!
This video comes via the Oregon Fly Fishing Blog It’s a sweet idea to use ostrich for the body of the caddis pupa. It’s really going to bring this pattern to life when it gets wet. I would make a couple small changes to the ones I tie being a divided pheasant tail antennae rather than the clump and a bit smaller partridge feather for the legs. Aside from that, it looks like a great patten. Nice tie.
Karnopp’s Riffle Diver: Green McKenzie Caddis Emerger
Hook: TMC 200, size 10
Bead: Black
Thread: Black or olive 6/0
Body: Chartreuse Ostrich
Rib: Silver wire
Hackle: Partridge
Wing: Pheasant tail fibers
Thorax: Black ice dubbing
I’ve been fooling around with a few of these flies. They are dead simple to tie and at this time of the year they seem to be working great. I had a few takers on this one today. I’m not sure why I didn’t tie these before now, but it look like they found a home in my dry fly box.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WR9IfpAKTL0
Sulfurs look promising as well tied up by Steve Williams hosted on Hans Page.
http://www.danica.com/Flytier/swilliams/sulfur_comparadun.htm
Hook: #14 Dry
Thread: 6/0 Match body color
Tail: guard hair - mink
Body: sulfur yellow dubbing
Wing: Light colored deer hair
More boobies! These are pretty sweet flies to on stillwaters. Just use a sinking line and adjust your leader so that the fly suspends in the water column from the bottom. Use some short twitches, which will pull the fly down. The fly then slowly rises as the buoyant foam starts to emerge.
Part 1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IVOoQG-x-ks
Part 2
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-RgeOiNCQTE
This is a other pattern tied up by Jurij Shumakov. There is a sweet collection of flies on the site so be sure to take a look. Recipe is below for those who want to try and tie a few up.
Butt: magenta floss.
Tail: magenta floss.
Body: rear half: Electra Holo, braid, silver; front half: mix of Peacock Black ice dub and STF Black dub.
Rib: front half: oval silver tinsel.
Body hackle: front half: white badger cock.
Wing: red Mirage Flashabou, small bunch of Serebrjanka fur died fairy brown, dark brown and red Angel hair, Peacock mirror flash; bunch of polar fox died black over the wing fine black ripple flash.
Front hackle: white badger cock.
Cheeks: jungle cock.
Head: black.
Piscator Flies
