Pattern tying instructions

[John Hicks]

Well I decided to add a thread called tying instructions. I'll add some more recipies with instructions later. I'll add this one to start.

Intruder instructions from Jack Cook.

Anyone with a good pattern that they think someone might need in the future, feel free to add thiers as well. Try to make it as detailed as possible.

[Cameron Derbyshire]

Are you looking for any specific pattern types? I've done two tying instructions, one for tying Spey/Dee flies and another for a specific Atlantic salmon pattern (the Gordon), which really applies to any Atlantic salmon pattern.

[HogWrangler]

GREAT IDEA!!!

[John Hicks]

Here is my caddis pupa tied for the Davidson river in North Carolina. I tie it on a size 16-18 dry fly hook. This pattern works very well out here on various rivers with caddis in them. I usually drop it off a larger nymph in order to get it down. Even with a tungsten bead it doesn't sink very well and floats in the current.

Bead= 1/16th black tungsten bead
Hook= size 16-18 dry fly hook
Body= Antron yarn olive, olive micro tubing, opalescent tinsel size small.

Step one, I place the hook in the vise and put the bead on. Have you ever tried putting a 1/16th bead on a size 18 hook. This helps with that.
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r97/jhicks_2007/Caddispupa2.jpg


I tie in all the materials on the back of the hook.

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r97/jhicks_2007/Caddispupa3.jpg

Wrap the tinsel forward and tie it off.

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r97/jhicks_2007/Caddispupa4.jpg

Repeat this process for the tubing and the antron yarn.

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r97/jhicks_2007/Caddispupa5.jpg
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r97/jhicks_2007/Caddispupa6.jpg

I then make a collar out of the black thread and tie off. This pattern is a variant of a sparkle caddis pupa. I have found that the picky trout on these rivers do not like the puffy body of the sparkle caddis pupa. This pattern looks a lot more like the natural caddis that has been washed off its rock in the current. I fish it dead drifted through the riffles and swung up at the end. 95% of my strikes are on the dead drift.

[Cameron Derbyshire]

Here are two step by step sets of instructions I wrote a while ago. Enjoy!

[scottflycst]

John,
I've found the same thing as you have here in the west, that olive caddis larve catch more fish with a smooth body rather than a fuzzy one. I lay down an underbody of krystal flash and then a simi-transparent layer of synthetic, larva lace, d-rib, or similiar. Same idea as you're using.

[Ringlee]

Here is a link to a Articulated Flesh Fly, I did.
http://www.washingtonflyfishing.com/board/showthread.php?t=30157&highlight=articulated+flesh

[Brian Thomas]

Here is a Step by Step for The Guaranteed I did a couple of years ago for a novice lady flytier/fisher here in B.C .Originally designed as a river pattern , it is also effective in stillwater .


http://gallery.fishbc.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=The-Guaranteed