Spring is knocking on the door even temperature is still under 0 degrees Celsius during the night and some rivers still holds ice on their shores. Tiny little creatures are appearing from nowhere motivating the fish to rise. I found a pretty interesting pattern in Steve Thorntons book 'Listen To The River - Vol. I' that might produce some fish during this harsh days. I tied a few in two different colours ( black and brown ) and I'll use them during the next weeks. This pattern is called 'hatching smut' and I changed a little bit the tying materials.
This are the materials I used and the tying instructions step-by-step.
Hook: Partridge Grub Shrimp size 16-20
Thread: Hends Elastic 1/14 brown
Abdomen: Condor Hurl substitute
Legs: CDC ( black and brown )
Wing: holographic foil
Thorax: strech foam ( black and brown)
Pens: Edding black and 1200 metallic
1. Attache the hook firmly in the vice and run on apply your thread base but keep a few loose cm of thread on the bent of the hook.
3. Build the abdomen with the hurl.
4. Dye the loose end of the thread with the black edding and bring it forward, securing the hurl. Cut with a surgery knife a small wing out of the holographic foil ( about 5 mm long for a hook size 16 - trim edges to a little wing shape ) and attache it like in the picture.
5. Cut a strip of strech foam ( 3 mm wide ) and attache it on the top of the wing.
6. Split your thread and place inbetween a CDC feather, close the loop, cut inbetween the quill and thread and spin the bobbin. After this wind the CDC rope with touching turns over the thorax area.
7. Pull over the thorax cover and secure it with a couple of turns of thread. Snip off waste of foam, whip finish and apply a drop of head cement.
8. I colored the brown thorax with an edding 1200 metallic.
9. Voila this are the flies:
Nice Fly
ReplyDeleteThank you Ron ! ;)
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