{"id":3866,"date":"2021-11-22T15:24:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T05:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/fly-tying-24-nov-2021-royal-wulf-variant-effective-on-the-cotter\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T19:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:38:06","slug":"fly-tying-24-nov-2021-royal-wulf-variant-effective-on-the-cotter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/fly-tying-24-nov-2021-royal-wulf-variant-effective-on-the-cotter\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Wulf variant \u2013 Effective on the Cotter Fly Tying 24 Nov 2021 &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-image-3865\" src=\"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image001-1010x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image001-1010x1024.jpg 1010w, http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image001-296x300.jpg 296w, http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image001-768x778.jpg 768w, http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image001-624x632.jpg 624w, http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image001.jpg 1263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Claude hosted on Wednesday 24 November demonstrating a Royal Wulff Variant.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Claude was particularly keen to tie some Royal Wulffs after seeing one of our new club members, Al, catch double digit (numbers of) rainbows on one Royal Wulff fly on a recent Cotter River outing. Not having time to go down the fancy white calf tail route (if you can find it) and wanting to do some quick ties, Claude decided to experiment with a not so complicated \u201cRoyal Like Wulff\u2019 dry fly pattern, not using any calf tail or hackle and just going for a Elk Hair wing\u2026and while he was there\u2026.he wondered if not having a tail matters? He tied a number of versions that were tested the following weekend. Well it was successful\u2026with fish being caught on multiple variants \u2013 EH tail, Crystal flash tail, and no tail\u2026.the fish were not monsters but still fun to catch.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Dry fly hook of size that you feel comfortable tying<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Dark thread \u2013 8<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Peacock herl or dub<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Red thread, dub or floss<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Elk Hair<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The three flies tied by Claude on the night. (<em>Ed: I&#8217;m ashamed to say mine are very poor and not available for viewing by the public<\/em> \uf600)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"wp-image-3873\" src=\"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1303-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1303-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1303-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1303-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1303-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1303-624x468.jpg 624w, http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1303.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" class=\"wp-image-3872\" src=\"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1306.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1306.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1306-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1306-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1306-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1306-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1306-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" class=\"wp-image-3871\" src=\"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1305.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1305.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1305-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1305-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1305-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1305-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_1305-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>keyword dryfly<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claude hosted on Wednesday 24 November demonstrating a Royal Wulff Variant. &nbsp; &nbsp; Claude was particularly keen to tie some Royal Wulffs after seeing one of our new club members, Al, catch double digit (numbers of) rainbows on one Royal Wulff fly on a recent Cotter River outing. Not having time to go down the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fly_tying"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7aQnH-10m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3866"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5864,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions\/5864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}