Chad shows you how to tie a really cool pattern of his.
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Flies Around the Net – 6-17-2014
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted Flies Around the Net, so I wanted to jump back into it this month. I also want to thank all of you for visiting and reading FrankenFly! I hope you enjoy these!
Adult Golden Stone – Al Ritt
Tied by Gerald Lee
Glass Minnow – Stoyan Filipov
Tied by Jason Taylor
Mouse – Sergio Rene Cordoba
Tied by Norbert Renaud
realistic nymph – Johan Put
Paul Young Special – Davie McPhail
Borchers Parachute – Paul J. Beel
Grandpa’s ChickenHawk – Paul J. Beel
Filed under Streamers, Trout flies
Hoffler’s Olive Zonker
A nice little streamer by Hunter Hoffler.
#8 Hanak streamer hook
4mm copper tungsten bead
olive 10/0 thread
olive zonker
flashabou
white super bright dubbing
red spectra dubbing
deer hair dubbing
Wapsi holographic eyes
Clear Cure Goo
Filed under Streamers
The Mailman (Drake Soft Hackle) – Curtis Fry
Don’t forget to check out FlyFishFood.com
Filed under Soft Hackles
SeaDucer Fly – Capt. Colt Harrison
This fly is a redfish producer tied by Captain Colt Harrison of The Charleston Angler in Charleston, South Carolina.
Filed under Saltwater
Lipton’s Black Flag
Jean-Paul Lipton has come up with another killer pattern and it should work really well on carp especially. Check out the recipe below and then head over to Jean-Paul’s roughfisher.com website to get more of the details.
Lipton’s Black Flag:
Hook: Umpqua U401 (O’Shaugnessy Stainless) Size 6
Thread: UNI Thread, 6/0 Black
Tail: Moose Mane
Body: Roughfisher’s custom dub, Black Gold
Underwing: Krystal Flash, Black/Peacock
Legs: India Hen, natural
Thorax: 3.2 mm tungsten bead; Roughfisher’s custom dub, Black Gold
Eyes: #3 (2.4 mm) ball chain, black
Filed under Carp flies, nymphs
Revive Fly Fishing Journal – Summer 2014
The new Revive Fly Fishing Journal is live! Check it out!
Filed under New Product
Goober Midge – Kelly Galloup
To find more check out Kelly Galloup’s Slide Inn.
Filed under Trout flies
Euro Minnow – Jason Haddix
Jason Haddix of Waters Edge Fly Company sent me this sweet tube fly. Here is the run down from Jason on the materials.
Tube: 3.0 mm inside 4.6 mm pearl flake tube. Both tubes by Heritage Angling Products
Thread: 3/0 Danville gray
Tail: Silver holographic flashabou- tied 2/3 tail and 1/3 folded back.
Collar: White marabou-wrapped forward.
Wing: Icelandic sheep-white, pink, grey
Collar: Olive marabou-wrapped forward
Flash: Silver holographic flashabou- tied on top of the wing
Collar: White marabou- wrapped forward.
Wing: Icelandic sheep-white, pink, grey.
Collar: Olive marabou-wrapped forward
Flash: Silver flashabou-tied on top of the wing.
Collar-White marabou-wrapped forward
Wing: Icelandic sheep-White, pink, grey
Collar: olive marabou-wrapped forward
Flash: saltwater silver holographic flashabou-tied on top the wing
Flash: pearl Krystal flash- tied 2/3 in and. 1/3 folded back.
Sides-two grizzly saddle hackles tied in to be 2/3 the length if the fly.
Front collar: two shad gray marabou feathers wrapped forward
Head: flymen fish mask
Eyes: flymen living eyes
Note: Euro style tubing can be purchased direct from heritage angling products at www.heritageanglingproducts.
Heritage 4.6mm tubing requires no junction and will accept up to a 5/0 hook directley in the tube.
Filed under Streamers
Green Butt Soft Hackle Diving Caddis
Ted Kraimer of Current Works had this nice soft hackle pattern in his enewsletter today. The pattern imitates an adult female caddis. Ted explains more below.
Black caddis are found in northern Michigan rivers anytime from late April through mid-July and can present themselves either heavily or lightly any day in between. It seems that as the season progresses, these “Mother’s Day caddis” or Grannom caddis tend to be heavier in density right at dusk and even into dark.
The adults bounce around on the water’s surface and don’t get much attention from fish because of their erratic nature of flight and the amount of wasted energy that sometimes goes into chasing them. But of importance are the adult female caddis with their bright green egg sack that oviposit/lay eggs by diving under water. These are the same caddis you may have witnessed crawling on vegetation or even your waders on a recent fishing trip – I often find them on my drift boat’s oar blades.
This easy and quick to tie pattern is effective for fishing wet any time the hatch is present, and even at times a day or two after a heavy emergence has occurred. The bright wire imitates the egg sack while providing some weight. Meanwhile, the soft hackle undulates under the water imitating the wing and antennae of the diving caddis.
To read how to fish this pattern and to see a step-by-step of how to tie the pattern, head over to the Current Works website here.
Filed under Soft Hackles, Trout flies
