Tying materials: Hook : Maruto Dohitomi D24 BLThread: yellow UTC 70 DENTail: brown barbs from pheasant tailBody: Kapok - troutline yellow mayflyRibbing: thread - brown 4 turnsThorax : yellow kapok dubbingWing: CDC natural grey
Testing flies in Slovenia on Idrijca and Soca rivers
A few days ago I went in Slovenia with two friends and TroutLine team members to test some flies on Soca and Idrijca rivers. We planned to fish 3 days on these beautiful but difficult rivers and to make a new selection of flies for starting season. The weather was not the best, ...
Nymphs for trout fishing when the season starts
A curious friend asked me about my nymphs for trout fishing, especially those used when fishing season starts. Being a beginner, he asked me to share those flies if is not a secret. Of course it wasn't a big secret :) and I gave him my list with flies. After, I was thinking how can I ...
Red Rusty Ant Fly
Materials used: Demmon DGS 902 BL #14Thread: brown- red-rustyBody: made of tying threadCoating: Troutline Perdigon resin – clearWing: CDC teal duck combined with Khaki – one feather of each colorHackle: one turn of brown hackle ( a tip here is to take out the barbs from one side! )Head made of thread coated with Troutline Perdigon ...
Black Ant Fly
Materials used: Demmon DGS 902 BL #14Thread: blackBody: made of any kind of threadCoating: Troutline Perdigon resin - clearWing: CDC teal duck combined with Khaki - one feather of each colorHackle: one turn of brown hackle ( a tip here is to take out the barbs from one side! )Head made of black thread coated ...
Simple and deadly buzzer
Simple is sometimes imperative if you want to catch trout . For Spring fishing in lakes or deep pools with muddy water bank, midges and larvae in red are probably the most efficient pattern. Red can be made of floss, catgut, synthetic materials, uv resin colored in red or even mylar red strips. Here is ...
Tying hot spots for nymphs in a different way
All of us know how efficient are hot spots. For 10 years or so a lot of nymphs tied with red, orange, chartreuse flooded the rivers. Nymphing is popular because is an effective style. More than that, you do not need to know casting, just loop the flies in front of you, pay ...
Macaw CDC Sedge
Macaw CDC Sedge , an ordinary Sedge tied with CDC on Demmon DSD 400BL is one of my favorite grayling dry fly. Materials: *body made of Macaw barb ( yellow/blue ) *thorax made of TroutLine pure squirrel dubb in natural *wing made of one feather of TroutLine natural grey CDC and 2 feathers of natural cream - Teal Duck ...
Something yellow – Yellow and Partridge Spider
Spiders are great, spiders are efficient, spiders are simple deadly. Yellow version is one of them so here they are: Tying Recipe: *Demmon W633 #12 *Yellow thread *Thorax made of peacock 2-4 turns *Hackle – Partridge grey selected (neck area) Tyips in tying: use a simple yellow thread, silk is the classic one used but a synthetic body thread ...
North Country Purple Spider – a classic wet fly
Tying Recipe: *Demmon W633 #12 *Purple thread *Neck made of peacock 2-4turns *Hackle - Partridge grey selected, 2 turns. Its is probably the simplest wet fly to tie. But there is a small trick: the hackle should be tied as sparse as possible. To do that just pull out the barbs from one feather side.
