February Flies from the Vise

[Stillinscrubs 0]

Tying size 22 female Tricos.  Never tied them before any advice?

[Mark Knapp 0]

On 2/13/2025 at 2:50 PM, Sandan said:

The Pretty Missus. Great Valentines day gift.

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La Grima

Hook - Single or double salmon
Thread - Black
Tip - Oval silver tinsel
Tail - 2 yellow hackle tips
Butt - Black ostrich herl
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Rear body - Yellow floss
Center joint - Black ostrich herl
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Front body - Black floss
Throat - Yellow hackle
Wing - Fox squirrel tail
Original fly by Kristjan Gislason from Reykjavik (Iceland).

This fly can also be tied in blue, green, red, orange, etc.

Quebec Fishing - La Grima

[Sandan 0]

6 hours ago, Stillinscrubs said:

Tying size 22 female Tricos.  Never tied them before any advice?

It looks pretty good. What I'd say is, clean up those stray fibers at the eye. Now I'm now sure if my explanation is good enough but here goes. Move the thorax to close to the eye. Keep it the same length though.  Here's the trick. Your head is just thread and that to me throws the proportion of the trico off. Rather than whip finishing with bare thread, whip with dubbed thread. Finally, at least here in CO. the trikes are small so tie 'em really sparse.  I pretty much use a small 20/22 comparadun as the sighter and a spent wing spinner as the point fly. If you're gonna use the parachute as the sighter or your only fly, mix some orange or red or some sort of hi-vis fibers in with the post.  The trico hatch has to be one of my favorites. 

[SilverCreek 0]

20 hours ago, Stillinscrubs said:

Tying size 22 female Tricos.  Never tied them before any advice?

One problem that you may find is that you will have difficulty hooking up when fishing with tiny flies because of the small hooking gap of these tiny hooks,

One solution is to tie these patterns on 2X short hooks like the TMC 921.

Then a size 22 fly will have the hook gap of a size 20 hook.

Another solution is to offset the barb in the vise by bending the hook after the you have tied the fly.

The third solution is when you have a spinner fall of tricos and the result is groups of and clusters of trico spinners with the trout taking fly clusters off the top, Then you can tie up and use a double trico spinner with two spinners tied on one longer hook with a wider hooking gap.

 

[Stillinscrubs 0]

Thank you guys, all your advice is noted and being included in my plans moving forward.

[Fruitrollup 0]

Front End Loader Ant

• Hook: Dry hook (here a Fulling Mill 5050), size 16.
• Thread: Black, 12/0 or 50-denier.
• Dubbing: Fine, Black
• Wing: CDC, White or Light Dun
• Hackle: Brown, Dry Fly Hackle, Tied Hackle Stacker Style.
• Post: 4X Mono

[sandflyx 0]

crabs,

[Mark Knapp 0]

I've been working on jigs for sun fish at 40 feet. These are spotted jigs. Been experimenting with different colors and sparseness.

 

Hook - Size 4 or 6 Umpqua Jig-60

Thread - black Danvilles 210 denier.

Head - Black 3/16 tungsten slotted bead.

Tail - purple, chartreuse or your favorite color, marabou.

Body - woven chenille in contrasting colors. In this case, purple and chartreuse.

Hackle - Purple or chartreuse woven Chinese hackle.