Renegade

[cornmuse 0]

A new addition to the fly pattern database has been submitted by cornmuse:

 

Renegade

 

[cornmuse 0]

If you haven't read Georges Odier's 1984 book Swimming Flies, you should. That book marks the point where high-stick nymphing really becomes a complete and unified system of fishing. The fly Odier recommends is a bit unusual - a dry fly fished as a nymph. He likes the Renegade fished on the bottom with shot a few inches above the fly.

 

I think this may have started life as a wet fly, but I've known it as a dry fly. It's a neat pattern that I fish during the summertime. I've had success on the Cumberland with this pattern when the Japanese beetles were on the water. I also like to fish it damp or dry as a caddis imitation. Odier suggested this was imitating a caddis pupa when he fished it as a nymph. Chuck Fothergill also listed the Renegade as one of his favorite nymphs in the book Masters on the Nymph (sounds like a tacky BDM porno-movie title to me, but there you go :hyst: ).

 

Full video instructions for tying the fly are available from the Apple iTunes Store or directly from Fly Fish Ohio.

 

Joe C.

[7wt 0]

Nice, I really like the classic 1950's style flies. Grab an old fiberglass rod and hit a small stream, my style of fishing!

[Mad Jack 0]

I really like the Renegade. It is a classic pattern...and it still works. I use it as a searching pattern, but often find I don't use anything else for the day. I like to use them dry, but as has been alluded to already, they work fairly well submerged. Go figure. Best of all, the Renegade is fairly straight forward to tie.

[oatka 0]

This is the only fly I remember my grandfather ever using. I have one of his flies, and I'll never risk losing it in a tree, so it sits on my tying desk.

[perchjerker 0]

Over the years, I have had great success with it letting it drift down as a dry, and pulling it under at the end of the swing, and retrieving as a wet. Most of my fish have been taken when fishing it as a wet.

[netabrookie 0]

The brookies in Virginia seem to have a taste for them and as mentioned before, more often wet than as a dry. oatka, I am still having to fish these "crooked" and "cripple" creeks... Take Care, Tony

[Piker20 0]

Lovely fly.

[Jaydub 0]

Great pattern! I notice you tie it with the brown hackle in front. I've most often seen it and tied it with the white in front. Not that it really matters.

[flytire 0]

i too thought the white hackle was up front

 

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nice history on the fly here

 

http://renegadefishers.com/

[Istripbuggers 0]

Ive heard that this fly was originally tied as a snail imitation which might explain why it works well submerged, but it makes a great dry as well. the brookie in my avatar was actually caught on a renegade off the top real early season in my local meadow. this fly has memories for me.

[Piker20 0]

Love peacock herl on my flies. This thread tempted me to tie a wet version that makes a lovely teardrop shape when wet.