Fishing Flies. Smalley
Fine gold wire or finest oval tinsel.
Thorax: Hare’s ear.
Legs: Few fibres brown speckled partridge hackle (optional).
Essentially a lake pattern that is very effective in the evening – fished along shores onto which waves are breaking.
FUR-BODIED HYDROPSYCHE
Hook: Curved caddis hook, sizes 12–14.
Thread: Light brown.
Abdomen: Grey or light buff fur.
Rib: Fine gold wire.
Thorax: Hare’s ear.
Legs: Few fibres grey partridge hackle (optional).
These two flies are most effective in fairly shallow, turbulent, bouldery water where the trout are most likely to find washed-out or drifting natural larvae.
Gorjan Franko lives in Tolmin, a small town on the Soca River (Slovenia). The Soca is full of trout, grayling and Hydropsyche, and the three come together well with Gorjan’s imitation.
HYDROPSYCHE (GORJAN FRANKO)
Hook: Wet fly, sizes 10–12.
Thread: Brown.
Body: Mix of 1⁄3 brown and 2⁄3 cream fur (fine textured).
Rib: Fine gold wire.
Hackle: Brown speckled partridge.
Upstream of Tolmin there are some very rapid stretches of river. To fish there, tie some with a tungsten bead at the head to get the fly down to the fish!
The following is a slight modification of one of Roman Moser’s caddis larvae for the River Traun.
HYDROPSYCHE
Hook: Wet fly, sizes 10–12.
Thread: Brown.
Tails (to represent the short tassel-ended ‘prolegs’ at the end of the body): Few fibres grey partridge hackle, cut short.
Body: Light grey or buff wool.
Shellback: Brown raffine.
Rib: Thick brown thread.
Legs: Brown speckled partridge hackle fibres.
Head: Hare’s ear.
Gary LaFontaine wrote the important textbook, Caddis Flies (1981), in which he explored North American caddis species and their life cycles, and created some fine imitations. The following is a useful general pattern – change the abdomen colour to buff, grey, brown and olive to match other species.
BRIGHT GREEN FREE-LIVING CADDIS
Hook: Curved grub/shrimp, sizes 10–12.
Thread: Brown.
Underbody: Fine lead wire.
Abdomen: Mix of 50 per cent olive and 50 per cent bright green fur or wool.
Rib: Brown cock hackle stalk.
Thorax: Dark olive-brown fur.
Hackle: Speckled grouse hackle fibres.
The next two tyings are by Oliver Edwards, whose book FlyTyers’ Masterclass, videos/DVDs and tying demonstrations have inspired many around the world of fly-tying, from Japan, through Europe to the United States.
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