Hook: Size 14 Gamakatsu C12U/B
Bead: 2.5mm Gold or Black
Weight: Round Lead
Legs/Tail: Tentacles Size 1
Abdomen: Pheasant Tail Fibres
Wingcase: Crystal Flash – UV Clear Fly Finish
Thorax: Brown CDC Dubbing
Fishing Technique:
Fished in small to medium sized trout streams as a single fly or control fly, dead drift.
Recipe:
Hook: Size 6-10 Streamer
Eyes: Medium Black Bead Chain
Weight: In thorax, round lead
Abdomen: Olive Rabbit Strip
Under body/belly: Olive/brown Dubbing
Legs: Mottled Sillilegs
Wingcase: Olive Ruffia
Weed/wrap Guard: 12-16lb Mono
Fishing Method:
Fish upstream with a dead drift in likely holding water, or to sighted smallmouth -and largemouth yellowfish in rivers.
Hook – # 14, 16 and 18 dry fly
Thread – 70 or 8/0 black
Tail – 2 or 3 Micro fibetts – clear or white
Body – black CDC dubbing
Wing – White egg or poly yarn
Suggested fishing method; Fish on long, thin tippet/leader configuration to rising fish in a trico hatch or spinner fall.
Hook: #14-16 Dry fly
Thread: #70 or 8/0 red
Tail: Coq de Leon fibres or white hackle fibres
Body: Peacock herl
Wing/Hackle 1: Badger or brown
Wing/Hackle 2: Coq de Leon or white hackle
Legs: Water mongoose fibres x 5-8
Hook: #14-16 Dry fly
Thread: #70 FL chartreuse or FL orange silk
Tail: Grizzly hackle fibres
Body: Spun deer hair
Post: Egg or poly yarn
Wing: Grizzly hackle
Hook: #14-16 Nymph Hook
Thread: 8/0 or 70 brown
Tail: 5-6 strands of pheasant tail fibres
Ribbing: Thin copper wire
Body/abdomen: Wrapped pheasant tail fibres
Wingcase: Pearl flash
Weight: Optional
Thorax: Grey squirrel dubbing
Hook: #14-16 thin wire sedge
Thread: #8/0 or 70 black
Abdomen: Epoxied foam cylinder 3/32″ or 1/8″ black (use 5min epoxy)
Thorax: fine black dubbing or peacock herl
Wing: White packing foam
Legs/hackle: black or dark brown
Hook: #10-12 caddis hook HW
Thread: 6/0 or 140 black
Weight: 0.2mm round lead wire
Ribbing: Copper Wire
Back: Scud back Olive
Body: Nymph dubbing light olive
Hotspot: dubbing orange
Thorax: dubbing dark brown
Tied by Fred Steynberg
Thread: Olive 8/0 or 7/0
Hook: #10 – 12 streamer
Eyes: Olive or brown beads on 30lb mono-filament stork
Under tail: Olive deer hair (prevents the tail wrapping)
Tail: Mixed dark and light olive marabou
Body and Thorax: Olive marabou
Wing/legs: Midge flash pearl
Wing case: Fly foam – dry fly
For use in: Still waters for mostly trout or slow moving pools in rivers.
Fished with a floating or intermediate line using a slow hand twist, figure of 8 retrieve.
A generic mayfly emerger pattern tied by: Fred Steynberg
Thread: 8/0 – 10/0 brown or tan
Hook: # 14 – 18 thin wire, dry fly hook
Tail: Hungarian partridge or similar feather fibres
Body: Brown or grey squirrel blend
Thorax: Brown CDC dubbing
Wing: White, tan or cream CDC puff
Imitating: Emerging mayfly nymph
For use: Rivers, streams and still waters
Fishing method:
Fished when hatches occur and fish can be seen boiling just below the surface.
Dead drift just below the surface or within the water film using a long, fine, creased leader.