Trout Emerger -my favorite model

[Lucian.Vasies 0]

Is not the simplest emerger to tie but works excellent in my waters. So here it is:

 

[Piker20 0]

Are you using anything to add to the floating properties of CDC Lucian? I like the look of these flies on the water but find they don't like a wave

[prairiedrifter 0]

So is it just a loop wing emerger? Not seeing why it wouldn't be an easy tie. Maybe I'm missing something?

It is a very nice looking fly though.

[spiralspey 0]

What a pretty emerger. I can see why your local fish like it.

 

I was thinking the same thing piker was, the fur dubbed thorax is going to soak up water and it won't float for long in rough water. Maybe a synthetic dubbed thorax, so you can put a little floatant on it and it'll soak up less water? I fish something similar and can't get much float time in rough water, so they're reserved for smooth flows or for casting to individual risers.

[Piker20 0]

What a pretty emerger. I can see why your local fish like it.

 

I was thinking the same thing piker was, the fur dubbed thorax is going to soak up water and it won't float for long in rough water. Maybe a synthetic dubbed thorax, so you can put a little floatant on it and it'll soak up less water? I fish something similar and can't get much float time in rough water, so they're reserved for smooth flows or for casting to individual risers.

Yep I've tried watershed on the dubbing prior to tying in / after tying in / both. In the end it is always gink but I'm never happy that using it with CDC is the best option.

[Lucian.Vasies 0]

My rivers are slow running. Trout has plenty of time to check the flies. Too bulky and the trout will not rise to check it. So I ise guard hair from hare or sometimes I use guard fibers from squirrel. I dubb very tight and I use CDC gel to increase the floatability . The fly will have the entire body in water and only the CDC loop will be up.

 

@prairiedrifter , in my opinion any fly that needs more than 4-5min to be tied is not very easy or simple fly . At this pattern if you do not make the proper sized cdc loop the fly will not float well. If the thorax has too much dubbing, same situation, will not catch fish. In the past I trow at garbage a lot of them until I found the proper proportions, the exact qty of cdc and so on... For this reason I call not very easy to be tied

[chugbug27 0]

Thanks for this, Lucian. For myself, I haven't bothered with a loop wing before... but I do like CDC on the quiet parts of a stream... I'm gonna tie a few and try it out hopefully this week. Is that a quill body, or some kind of synthetic? (Or neither?)

[spiralspey 0]

Lucian, thanks for your explanation of why you tie the fly the way you do. It makes perfect sense to me.

 

I enjoy all your flies very much, they're well tied and beautifully photographed, and knowing that thought and experimentation went into how you tie a pattern makes it more interesting to me. I especially like to see flies that guys actually fish with, flies that have evolved over time to solve a particular problem or represent a specific insect. Plus your flies are proportioned very similarly to my own (except yours are so much better tied) so they are extra pleasing to my eye because they look like they could have come out of my own box.