Passion for fly tying: March 2015

Monday 16 March 2015

Making Nobbler heads

Dog Nobbler and similar flies based on the concept of a lead head on the fly, painted in different colors with painted eyes on is a fly with attractiveness and weight. The weight gives the fly a jigging movement that is often irresistible for fish. Here is a short description of how you make your own Nobbler heads.

Material

Hook: Any kind of streamer, long shank or even standard wet hook. I prefer the curved nymph hook, mostly because it gets fancier flies with this type of hook. Size 6-10

Lead: Super soft lead shot, size BB- No.1. I prefer no.1 lead shot but if you need realy heavy depth chargers you can even use size AAA. Be careful when you use them so that they don't hit you when you are throwing your fly cast. It will hurt

Glue: Super glue

Paint: Black and yellow water based paint. Humbrol have a wide scale of colors and it dries really fast.

Other: Pliers, brush, scissors that you not care about, a stick approximately 3 mm diameter and pointed on one end (i use a barbecue stick made of bambu or a toothpick) and a wine cork

1. Take a lead shot and open it up to about 90 degrees angle with the scissors.

2. Take the hook and place a tiny drop of super glue just behind the hook eye.

3. Place the hook in the open lead shot and squeeze it together with the pliers.

4. I use to prepare a lot of lead heads before i start painting them.
A cork is good to place the hooks on for handling them for painting them later.

5. Paint the lead heads with black paint and leave them to dry.

6.Take the stick and dip the wider end in yellow paint and make a dot on each side of the lead shot.

7. Leave the hooks to dry..

8. Now use the smaller end of the stick and make smaller black dots on the yellow dots.

9. Leave to dry.

10. After the paint have dried the hooks are ready for dressing.

Wednesday 11 March 2015

Marabou streamer. Yellow orange with a twist

In the early spring fishing in still cold water and sometimes colored by spring rains and flushed out soil particles a really colorful fly with vibrant and abundant motion can be the right medecin.

This is a fairly simple and highly functional pattern for this fishery.

Materials

Hook: 4x long streamer hook. Size 8 or 6

Thread: 10/0 black or monofilament (take what ever you prefer)

Body: Any kind of silver metallic dubbing as long as it is soft. I have used Hends dubbing.

Wing: Yellow fluo and fluo orange marabou

Ben: Yellow / orange fluo sili legs

Eyes: Fluo orange chain eyes

1. Attach the tying thread.

2. Dub the thread with silver metallic dubbing. This is a easy way of making a silver body without using silver tinsel. I do mean that this kind of bodies reflects more light than traditional silver tinsel bodies.

3. Wind the dubbed thread toward the hook eye in a nice taperd form.

4. Attach a smal batch of fluo yellow marabou.

5. And on top of that another batch of fluo orange marabou.

6. To get the little extra twist on this fly we tie in three pices of fluo orange / yellow sili legs and finally, finish with chain eyes in the sharpest fluo orange color as possible.

7. Add a drop of superglue after you finished the flie.

Now you are ready to take a fight with the spring rainbow trout

Tuesday 10 March 2015

Mysis shrimp

Mysis shrimp is an accessible prey for sea trout. They are small but are plentiful and are an easy prey. Small slim and transperanta flies with a shrimp-like appearance can often be very effective. This is a fairly simple pattern that has given me many sea trout over the years.

Materials
Hook: TMC 200 R or any other curved nymph hook. Size 8-10
Thread: transperant monofilament
Tail, underbody and thorax: Lite Brite dubbing. Yellow.
Body: a thin layer transperant plastic from a zip bag, 2-3 mm wide, or equally and round transperant nymph body with a diameter of 0.5mm for small mysis and 0.8mm for larger flies.
Thorax cover : A 3-4 mm wide strip of zip bag or equally
Eyes: Burned 0.50 to 0.60 mm monofilament and then painted black with permanent marker pen
Legs : 3-4 pieces about 0.25 mm monofilament

1. Attach the tying thread on the middle of the hook

2. Then take a few rays of yellow Lite Brite dubbing. The yellow Lite Brite has almost a yellowolive color. Attached them so they cover the hook up to a third of the hook shank and pointing back over the hook like a tail.

3. Take a plastic bag type a zip bag with a little thicker plas,ict. Cut a 3-4 mm wide strip tapered towards one of the ends.

4. Cut the Lite Brite fibers to an an approximately 5 mm long tail. Also cut the remaining dubbing after about 2/3 of the hook shank.
Then attach the round nymph body at the beginning of the tail and on top of it the plastic strip. Keep in mind that nymph body must cover 2/3 of the the hook shank as well.

5. Start Winding the plastic strip over the dubbing. Attatch and cut of the remaning part of the plastic strip. Keep rest of the strip to use for the thorax cover.

6. Then follow after with the nymph body. Attatch andcut of the rest of the nymph body.

7. Attach the plastic strip again.

8. Now. Start preparing the making of the eyes.

Take about 4 cm 0.50 to 0.60 mm monofilament. Clamp the monofilaments in a hackelplier or in a tweezers. Burn the ends to form smal balls of melted mono.

9. Let them harden and color them later with black permanent marker

10. Attach the Eyes just behind the hook Eye

11. Take 3-5 pieces 0.20-0.25 mm monofilament about 6 inches long. Attached them on the underside of the hook in the middle of the front 1/3 part of the hook shank.

I prefer to do this with fly up side down.