a b c of Fly Tying – Trout Flies – module 1
The module has been designed so that as you tie each successive fly your skills will accumulate and be reinforced. It is therefore best if you tie the flies in the order presented.
Trout flies
Fuzzy spiders – Chatto’s original
There is almost no limit to the combinations that you can come up with and these are the ones that I regularly fish and you may like to try. I don’t know if fish pick them up as emerging insects but they do fish well when fish have emergers on the menu.
Dark magic – Chatto original
As long as there is a flow in a river to work a fly then English Spiders are an option. Particularly if you want to target educated fish in clear slower water. They land softly and are suggestive little flies. The combination of the buggy shape, the movement of the soft hackle often produce a hit.
English spiders
As long as there is a flow in a river to work a fly then English Spiders are an option. Particularly if you want to target educated fish in clear slower water. They land softly and are suggestive little flies. The combination of the buggy shape, the movement of the soft hackle often produce a hit.
Black and peacock
Spider type flies like the Black and Peacock are very buggy and suggestive flies. Weather being used as a polaroiding fly, a static wet, one of the flies in a team of loch style flies, or a fly to cover rising fish spider type soft hackle flies may be taken as a snail, submerged beetle, drowned terrestrial, diving beetle or even a corixia. Alternatively the fish may just pick them up because of the movement of the soft hackle or the suggestive buggy nature of the overall shape.
Black & peacock
Flies that represent spiders and beetles are very buggy and suggestive flies. Weather being used as a polaroiding fly, a static wet, one of the flies in a team of loch style flies, or a fly to cover rising fish spider type soft hackle flies may be taken as a snail, submerged beetle, drowned terrestrial, diving beetle or even a carixia.