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 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: #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.
Tied by Fred Steynberg
Hook: # 10 – 8 streamer or terrestrial hook
Thread: # 140 or 6/0 olive
Eyes: Olive beads on 30lb monofilament
Weight: 0.15 round lead
Abdomen: Rayon chenille olive
Legs: Tentacles small – brown
Thorax: Olive squirrel or hare’s
Wing case: Olive Swiss straw
Imitating: Larval stage of an Aeshnidae dragonfly (swimmer)
How to fish: Dead drift below an indicator in stronger currents or fished on a long leader in deep slow pools using the ‘wiggle lift’.
Hook: 16-14 Nymph
Thread: 8/0 or 70 Dark olive
Ribbing: Medium copper wire
Back: Olive or light olive scudback
Dubbing: Olive squirrel
Weight: 0.15″ Lead wire
Tail: 6-8 Pheasant tail fibres
Wingcase: Black marker
Imitates: This is a generic mayfly nymph or stonefly nymph imitation.
Thread: #70-140 or 8/0 to 6/0 black
Hook: Nymph Hook # 16 – 12
Bead: 2 – 3 mm Brass bead
Weight: 0.15 mm Lead wire
Tail: 4 – 6 Natural pheasant tail fibres
Ribbing: Thin to medium copper wire
Body and thorax: Hare’s ear dubbing or grey squirrel dubbing
Wingcase: Pearl flashabou
Fishing method: Fish on a dead drift in rivers or still waters. It can also be stripped slowly.