The Connecticut Fly Fisherman’s Association is made up of some wonderful people. With strong leadership, all events are a pleasure to attend. Each time I am asked to participate in fly tying events, I am honored. The other evening, we had our annual Fly Tying Roundtable. Like many, I become inundated with the vast majority of fly patterns to choose from. During a recent read (…and there have been many reads…) of Dave Hughes’ Wet Flies, I noted his suggestion of a great experiment. Hughes suggests that one could tie wet flies in four simple body / wing color patterns: olive/blue dun; gray/grizzly; tan/brown; pale yellow/ginger. p.48. What a wonderful idea! From this suggestion, I decided to tie a nymph, wet and dry fly based on this color scheme. I used favorite base fly patterns, but modified them a bit to accommodate my specific small stream fly fishing needs. This spawned the basis of my fly tying presentation. My goal was to provide folks with a comprehensive set of essential small stream flies that represent a wide variety of life stages of aquatic insects. General fly patterns tied in four (4) different color schemes (olive/blue dun; gray/grizzly; tan/brown; pale yellow/ginger): (1) All-Fur Wets (Rosborough, Hughes) - tied as nymph and wet My Modifications: bodies dubbed with Hare’s Ear Plus matching colors (2) Flymphs (Leisenring, Hidy, Hughes) (3) Wulff Dries (Bailey, Wulff, Betters) My Modifications: hair wings eliminated; hackle and tails color matched The following morning, I disappeared on a remote small stream, and tested these patterns in the warming weather. It was an amazing outing with many char were taken on these flies. Click Play: Comments are closed.
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