John led us through this very pretty (and I understand very effective) fly. John tells me he didn’t see any Petitjean gear at Nathan’s new digs, however Troutlore has them in stock. JQ tells me they are worth the expense.
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Claude volunteered to host fly tying on Wednesday 27 March tying the Grab All emerger.
Detailed instructions may be available from Claude or Lyall, though the fly is a Chris Bassono design and can be found in a standard text book.
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Peter assumed the task of leading.
The Fly was the egg laying Elk Hair Caddis. It is a simple fly to tie and can be tied from size 20 to size 10. In past years it has been responsible for many hook ups for Peter (he cannot suggest that it was primarily the egg laying tie that attracted the fish or whether an ordinary would have done the job).
The following materials are required for the tying of the Egg Laying EHC:
Hook size: size 16 or your preferred size hook Hanak 100BL
Thread : Uni thread 8/0 Brown
Dubbing: Ice Dub UV peacock eye (or hends spectre dubbing 46)
Dubbing : superfine dubbing Tan
Hackle: Brown Saddle Hackle to suit hook size
Wing: Bleached Elk Hair
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Leon has offered up this pattern. He said “I am sharing this easy to make fly for carp. For people who only have enough time to fish near home. Drag slow on bottom for carp and fast for Redfin.
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The PFD (personal floatation device) Humpy is this month’s Fly Fishers International Fly of the Month so is being tied all around the world in November. Lyall will take us through some of the intricacies.
This is a high floatation stimulator/attractor which is great for choppy rapids as your dry fly on your dry and dropper rig.
Materials
Hook: size 10 dry fly hook (I used a 1x short Gamakatsu S12-1F but any dry fly hook will do)
Wing: white kiptail
Hackle: saddle hackle – any colour
Body: floss any colour and 1.5 mm foam sheet any colour (see attached photo and you will get the idea)
Tail: elk hair
Thread: 6/0 colour to match foam
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JM led a small team learning special tips on how to tie this damsel nymph. One thing I learnt reading the FlyLife article was that while damsels and dragonflies look similar as adults, their nymph stages are quite different.
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Flytying will be run by Shaun with his Crustacean Bugger – now known to be effective both locally and in Italy! Normal time of 7:30PM at Raiders Weston Club.
According to Lyall it looks like a trout slayer to and would be perfect for taking on the fat trout a few of us have been catching at Lake Eucumbene over the yabby beds recently. The materials list is below and Shaun’s full tying instructions will be available in hard copy at fly tying on Wednesday so BE THERE!!!
Shaun’s Crustacean Bugger
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We tied the Eucumbene Zonker Bugger under JQ’s supervision.
Materials list and a photo of the killer fly here. Warning – these flies are so deadly that NSW Department of Primary Industries is about to make them illegal. 😀
The zonker is the tail, a replacement for the usual marabou. They’re not overly big and tied on a jig hook so that it may be snag free as you pull them through yabbie beds or soaks around the lakes.
Recipe:
– jig hook sizes 10-16. 12-14 is a recommended size for these. With a slotted bead to suit.
– Thread 8/0 uni and a colour of your choice
– Zonker strip (olive, brown, Black etc) to create the tail. We will remove the fur from strip, rather than tie in the strip.
– flash in any colour. One or two strips tied into the tail.
– body may be any dubbing, spectra, seals or chenille etc
– small wire any colour (locking down the hackle).
– hen hackle to suit body. Eg grizzly, olive, brown black etc.
– hot spot usually flyline backing or something that ‘pings’ when the UV torch hits it. JQ will bring this. It’s what Nathan recommends!
– head cement be it Loon UV or Sally Hansen’s
A simple straight forward tie… the thorax is the scruffy piece and the collar gives it a ‘lock on’ feature for the fish.
•Hooks – types various(jig, straight, caddis etc) sizes 12-18
•Bead – suit hook size – colour various
•Thread – colours various – 8/0 or 6/0 uni thread
•Wire – colours various – small (.6mm)
•Body – Various – stripped peacock quills, Hends body quills or tinsel mylar etc
•Thorax – colours and dub various. Hends Ice, Hends hares ear, seal-prism blend etc
•Collar – colour various but recommend a uv reflect (fluro orange, hot pink/ yellow, lime etc) size 3/0
•Sally Hansen clear top coat or a uv resin to lock down and bring shine to the collar.
Nothing special in this tie. Every fly we’ve covered in the past has a piece of material suitable to build this fly, nothing more to buy or hunt at a shop.
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