Stillwater Patterns

[mtn 0]

Heres a Diawl Back:

[caddis16 0]

[mtn 0]

Caddis16 What are the goldhead flys with the black hackle?

Have you got a materials list?

[caddis16 0]

mtn. They are a flymph tied behind a bead.

 

olive

thread - to match body

hook - mustad 9671 #14 shown

bead - brass sized to hook

hackle - hen hackle (coq d leon shown)

tail - hen hackle (coq d leon shown)

rib - oval silver tinsel

body - olive beaver dubbing

 

 

Orange is exact except body is fl. orange yarn. Quick and easy tie. Orange is great on brookie ponds in the fall.

 

ooops. I missed the lonely lttle tan one. Same except wood duck tail and hares ear dubbing.

[tcr 0]

:bugeyes: Great flyes

here are some of my favorites

Goldhead Damsel

Damsels

Lures,Zonkers, Minkies

Cats wiskerBlack BuzzerDiawl bachKlinkhammerMontana

GRHECDCBooby

Best wishes Tcr

[Faster Fish 0]

Boy do I have a lot of tying to do.

[knoxy 0]

In England, we are very keen on our stillwater fishing, and some English patterns that i can reccomend are:

 

Damsels (Tied with olive marabou)

Montana nymphs

Bloodworm (Use spanflex or fexibody)

Epoxy buzzers.

 

Sorry for the lack of pictures, but you can look them up on the net if you wish.

 

Regards

 

Chris

[letumgo 0]

WOW, what a great topic this has turned into!!! You've all contributed a wonderful collection of stillwater patterns. Now, I'm going to have to get a bigger fly box and start adding a bunch of these patterns...

[Alex_F 0]

Here's a few more pics and patterns for you..

 

First off is a floating fry imitation. When the trout are feeding hard on fry at the end of the season they often charge in to fry shoals and stun the small fish which then float to the surface twitching in their final throes. The trout then come back in and mop up the helpless victims. This fly is made with an ethafoam body base with wide pearl mylar piping pulled over. The mylar is then coated with clear 5 minute epoxy for 2/3 of the body, the tail section is left untreated. This lets the tail bend which means the hook up is relatively unimpeded. It it fished static or with the odd twitch every now and again in areas where fry feeding activity has taken place.

 

The second, third and fourth are versions of the Diawl Copyn, a spider version of the Diawl Bach. A collection of general spiders which work all year round and can be excellent during a hatch of chironomid.

 

The fifth is the Erics Beetle. A great imitation of a host of aquatic bugs and beetles.

 

The sixth is the March Brown Spider. Most lowland still waters and many slower rivers have a large population of water louse. At the beginning and end of the season trout often feed heavily on these small crustaceans, the March Brown spider imitates these very well if fished deep and slow. Again, more stuff to follow when I get time.

[TROOT 0]

Best Chironiomid pattern I use is My " Enamel Wire Bloodworm" Works all year round.

Nothing more than Wire Around a Grubber Hook.and painted with Signal Red Enamel.

Fished mainly static and then the very slow figure of eight Retrieve,

 

 

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www.gameangler.co.uk

 

TIGHT LINES ALL!

[CTBUGGER 0]

hey troot, that looks like it would be a very effective pattern here where i am, do you have a quick materials list, just what size wire and hook, is all i need, thanks