This helps to give a nice natural looking taper and bait fish shape. The one good thing about a life “wasted” fishing, is that, as the seasons change, like old friends they guide you to revisit all your regular haunts to get in a good day’s fishing. Palmer the white CDC feathers and tie off leaving enough space for a biggish elk hair wing; Step 3. But then I started watching his videos on how he builds/ties/paints his incredible Ultimate Candies. The skinnier fly above has a subtle pop and pronounced dive, whereas the NYAP-inspired version spits more water and makes more noise. Tie the silicone rubber strands in again on each side of the hopper to form the front legs. Trim the elk at the head of the fly – the fly is basically ready to use if whip finished at this stage; Step 5. I would make it a yearly challenge to rush from work on the shortest day of the year (22nd June) and still manage to catch a wave or two before complete darkness forced me out of the water. It rocks the fly and creates movement! This is a step by step tutorial for how to tie a very simple but very effective pike fly. Mercer's Tungsten Swing Caddis Emerger SBS http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag128/SBPatt/Tying/Tying003/IMG_5508_zpswm8pd5qg.jpg Cool fly… You can use a spatula or paint scraper to make this easier. Saved by John Smagula. Herman with arguably the holiest of freshwater indigenous fish in South Africa, a beast of a Clanwilliam yellow. To this I add a loop and connect a short tippet of 3X. The best of 14 river pike on the fly today. For the rest of Herman Botes’s Lifer pages (and a whole lot more), get stuck in to issue 21 of The Mission below or buy the print version online. It’s an optional step. Yellow and Tan markers for highlights, Body Materials:  Sybai Angel Hair and Hareline Ice dub, Head dubbing:  Ice dubbing (brand unknown). The Blue Peter pub was down the road. I first saw the method of doubling over the zonker strip to create a tail on a Danish sea trout pattern. I don’t use a hair stacker to even the tips as I prefer the more natural look of tail fibres of different lengths. I can’t wait to throw it at other fish species this season. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Then tie off and trim to desired shape. I went with this one of my own patterns, the olive pheasant tail. Step 2. This body is a mix of Sybai pearl angel hair (90%), Hareline silver ice dub (8%) and a few strands of gold hairline icedub. Then tie in legs, two on each side once more, same length as the tail section (optional). Here is a general step-by-step on the variants I fish: Step 1. We were on the bank of the brand new Theewaterskloof dam and we spent many afternoons fishing for bass with cheap gear and homemade lures and flies. I applied this concept to the wolf spider imitation that I tie and a parachute Adams and both looked edible (yet to be tested on some trout, but I have no doubt they will love it): A parachute Adams tied with a Triple CDC abdomen. I free style and fuck around far too much… and it irritates me, cause I want nothing more than a fly box with multiple perfectly matching patterns, but it just never happens so when I saw this method of Ru’s, and he sent some videos on how he gets it done, I had to try it. Much has been written about John Beams and his JB Woolly Worm (also known as the Red Butt Woolly Worm), a slightly modified version of the original Woolly Worm that absolutely slayed the trout according to trusty sources (i.e., Tom Sutcliffe, Ed Herbst and Dean Riphagen). Browse through the videos, choose a dry fly pattern and click for detailed, step-by-step video fly tying instructions. Squeeze a small dollop of Pattex 100 onto a piece of cardboard and use a paint brush to “paint” on a light coat over the whole head you’ve just painted.. its tough to explain how much to use, or how thick a coat, but thinner is better. Being a commercial tier, he’s always looking for ways to make tying easier, faster, and more consistent. I’ve found this way the pattern is far more weedless when swinging in currents. A Clanwilliam yellowfish and brown trout caught in the same shallow run at the same time – photo by Philip Hills. But there’s another reason the choppy water helps. Add some more super glue into the gap and fold around and hold in place as shown. Mostly for brown trout and pike but a few other species every now and again too. Taper the body with thread and cover it with varnish to secure the pheasant tail fibres which will be wrapped next. If you don’t have a drying wheel, you can just keep turning it in the vice, it should set up in about 5 or 10 mins to the point where it won’t be running anymore.

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