I love the guilty pleasure of a simple tie. Makes it easier to build up your arsenal of warriors while your other obligations try to gather your attention. Time is always at a premium in the summer, and fishing never seems to get enough of mine. Or at least as much as I would like.
Fishing the bottom does not come without its caveats. Rocks, deadheads, and other snags mercilessly devour flies like Oprah at an all you can eat buffet. In some reaches it seems you're losing flies faster than you can tie them on. Time to get busy at the vise.
The same acrylic latch hook yarn from MCG Textiles that I use for creating custom dubbing blends make up the tail and body sections of this pattern. A wire rib helps secure the wrapped yarn to the hook. A simple glimmer chenille thorax and a beadhead finishes off the pattern. For a different look, I tied a few with bead chain eyes and a peacock herl wingcase. Maybe the brown colored ones will resemble larval crawfish? At any rate, they are damn close enough to resemble simplified swimming nymphs. Hopefully they will fish just as effective.
Those dingleberries look pretty healthy - much prettier than the average Klingon!
ReplyDeletebefore beadheads were popular i'd tie flies like these on barbless hooks with a tiny split shot freshly squeezed on the hook shank.
ReplyDeletemy boys would ensorcel unwary bullfrogs with them.
to be honest with you i still tie them, but they don't take many carp.
they are a helluva crappie fly though and i suppose still would lure frogs to hours of torment.