This week’s Tying Tuesday focuses on two smaller mayfly patterns (though one will be tied in bigger sizes) and ends with an ideal how-to video about utilizing wire in your flies. I do know it’s nonetheless January, but it surely feels good to be tying mayflies and dreaming of the primary hatches, even when they don’t begin for an additional few months.
Our first fly this week is a private favourite of mine. I’m of the opinion you’ll by no means have too many Sparkle Duns in your field. Usually, that is the one fly I take advantage of when fish are extra-picky throughout mayfly hatches. It’s such a unbelievable sample, and it’s easy to tie, as effectively.
Sparkle Dun
Hook: Mustad Heritage R30 sizes 12-20.
Thread: Grey, 14/0 or 50-denier.
Wing: Deer hair.
Trailing Shuck: Brown and yellow Z-Lon.
Physique: Gentle olive Superfine dubbing.
Our subsequent fly is a unbelievable little mayfly nymph which may pull double responsibility as a stonefly in some rivers. Tied by Davie McPhail, this Flat Stone Clinger nymph is comparatively easy, however I really like how buggy and complicated it appears. I’m positively placing a number of of those in my field.
Flat Stone Clinger
Hook: Fulling Mill 5125 Jig Drive Quick dimension 16.
Bead: Metallic brown slotted tungsten, 2.8mm.
Thread: Gentle Cahill 8/0 or 70-denier.
Tail: Fiery ginger Coq de Leon.
Rib: Brown UTC wire, small.
Physique: Rabbit physique fur.
Thorax: Brown olive CDC fibers.
Thorax cowl: Darkish brown pheasant tail.
Legs: Brown olive partridge feather.
Adhesive: UV-cure resin.
And wrapping up Tying Tuesday this week is one other episode within the Ability Builder collection from Fly Fish Meals. This video focuses on how one can reinforce, longer-lasting our bodies through the use of a unique strategies when including wire to your flies. That is a kind of movies I want had been round after I began tying.
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