Epoxy flies

I use a lot of two-component adhesives, epoxy, to my flies. A bit messy but it gives the flies outstanding durability and with a little practice you learn to control on the solidification process so that it form beautiful flies. I use epoxy mainly to the different fish imitations but also to some tubeflies and nymphpattern.

 I will post a step by step description soon in an upcoming blog post.

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.

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