Wiggling Gummy Creep

Those flies are just what the name says, Wiggling gummy creeps. They are vibrant and swimming in the water with a bouncing motion that most fish species have hard to resist. Sea trout, rainbows, perch, etc. taste happily on those creeps 

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Abdomen 

Hook: Almost any kind of short shank, wide gap hook size 8 or 6. Here i have used a carp hook.

Thread: Black

Body: Ice dub uv black or black spectra dubbing 

Legs: 2 black-red silicone legs.

Front body

Link to the abdomen: 0.35 to 0.40 mm monofilament

Hook: Same as for abdomen

Thread: Black

Eyes: Silver Medium (about 3.5 to 4 mm) dumbbell eyes with yellow / black flat stick eyes glued on the dumbbell or dumbbell eyes with ready yellow eyes 

Body: Ice dub uv black or black spectra dubbing g. Dub also between the eyes.

Legs: 2 black-red silicone legs.

1.     Start by attaching the tying thread on the hook to be The abdomen.

2. Dub the thread with a small amount of black dubbing

3. Dub a small lump

4. Attach the sili leg with the red parts pointing backwards and wind the remaining part against the hook shank toward the hook eye. The sili leg should been tied in on each side of the hook  shank 

5. Dub the thread with some more black dubbing

6. Dub the body and when you reach the sili leg bend them backward and attach them just in front of the red part. Take a very small amount of black dubbin and dub in front of where you just attached the sili legs 

7. Take the scissor and cut the remaining loops open   

9. It should now almost look like a spider. 

10. Bend the remaining black part of the sili legs backward and secure them with the winding thread . Secure the thread. cut it off and give it and give it a little varnish or super glue

11. Cut of the hook right where the dubbing starts

12. You now have a ready abdomen and are ready to go to the next part of this pattern 

13. Repeat the step in picture no 1

14. Take about 5 cm of the monofilament and attach it on top of the hook shank

15. Secure with a drop of super glue

16. String the abdomens on to the monofilament. Fold the monofilament over the hook and attach it with the thread. Abdomen will now dangle in a small loop

17. Attach the dumbbell eyes just behind the hook eye. Attach it whit figure of eight winding around and across the eye. Secure with a drop of super glue.

18. Dub a smal lump of black dubbing as you did on the abdomen.

19.-21. Now you repeat the same step for attaching the sili legs as you did  on the abdomen

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22-23. When you dub the front of the fly you have to dub around and across the dumbbell eyes with figure of eight with the dubbed thread. 

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24. Finish the fly with a whip finish. Cut of the thread and secure with varnish or super glue

25. Finished fly. This fly has an incredibly seductive jigging movement in the water and can of course be tied in different color combinations. Variations of olive, white, orange and red tend to be toxic. The fly has been an incredible killer for fishing rainbow trout in lakes and streams and for sea-trout on the coast and in river and streams.

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

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.

Materials Hook: TMC 200 R or any other curved nymph hook. Size 8-10 Thread: transperant monofilament Caudal, lower body and thorax: Lite Brite dubbing. yellow / olive Body: a thin layer transperant plastic from a zip bag or equivalent and round transperant body wrap with a diameter of 0.5mm for small mysis and 0.8mm for the slightly larger Carapace: a 3-4 mm wide strip of zip bag or equivalent Eyes: Burnt and painted black from 0.50 to 0.60 mm monofilament Ben: 3-4 pieces about 0.25 mm monofilament





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.

12. Dub the thread with Lite Brite

13. And then dub the thorax

14. Fold the plastic strip over the thorax. And cut of the remaning part.

15. Finish the fly whit a whip finish and secure the ending with a smal dropp of superglue.

16. Turn the fly upp side down again and cut of the monofilament legs so that they will be about 5-7 mm long.

17. The Mysis shrimp is now ready and clear to go......