Krystal Shrimp for saltwater fishing

Here you can find a pattern very easy to tie if yo are beginner in fly tying and you need a fishy fly :)

Materials:

Hooks: Daiichi D900  ST saltwater fly hooks size #6-2
Thread: Uni Cord White
Antennae: Orange Bucktail
Eyes: mono with UV Deer Creek Resin
Underbody:dubbing in burnt orange
Body:Super Long Hair

 

If you are interested about tying with Super Long Hair you can find here an older article

 

happy tying :)

Lucian

 

My Best CDC Dry Fly – The Queen

The Queen is my best cdc dry fly for slow and medium running waters.
It is an artificial fly which floats perfectly on water, and it’s very realistic so that fish can’t ” turn it down”! I happened to create it while I was tying some classic dun flies with CDC. I was trying to find a balance between the shape and the position of the wing of the fly. For this reason I was fixing some CDC barbs towards the eye of the hook and another bundle fixed classically on the eye of the hook. At the second bundle of CDC it was more difficult to cut the extra CDC because there wasn’t enough space between the eye of the hook and the fixing spot. If I didn’t cut them carefully, short ends of barbs would remain and cover the eye of the hook. This would have made the head too thick and unnatural in the end. This is the reason why I stopped cutting the extra tips of barbs and instead leaving them long, approximately at the length of the insects’ legs. I made a few turns between the barbs to spread them so that in the end they remained fixed onward and laterally oriented. With the help of the body and tail the barbs of CDC create a perfect balance of the fly.
The major advantage of this technique is that the legs of CDC rest onward and laterally oriented regardless of the number of casts. The wing of the fly rests upwards, exactly the way it should be in the case of a DUN. On top of all, the fly floats great, maintaining the well-defined form which makes fish attack more often than in the case of the same fly tied differently.

Materials:

Hook: Maruto Dohitomi D04 #14-18

Thread: 17/0 UniThread

Body: hand stripped peacock quill

Wing: Natural Grey CDC

Legs: Natural Grey CDC

 

 

Happy tying :)

 

 

 

Agostino Midge Emerger

Here is a step by step about how to tie a midge emerger  using Agostino Roncallo style. Agostino is a great  Italian flytyier who published a few  beautiful fly tying books and many articles.

Materials:

Hooks: D910 Daiichi #14-18

Thread: 17/0 Uni

first Body: Puf CDC

Second Body: peacock barbs and grizzly hackle

Wing: Grey Dun Wing CDC

And the step by step:

Jigs for fishing trout in Summer time

Here is a nymph that I use in this period of time.  Trout love it especially in the first part of the day:

The body is made using cream-light brown dubbing mixed with cdc. In this way the body is  more translucent then the body made of regular dubbing.

I use this variant when the water temperature is warmer and the emergers start to appear everywhere.

Materials that I use:

Hooks: ST300 BL #12

Thread:  Textreme Standard 8/0 white

Body: mad rabbit dubbing natural color mixed with light march brown rabbit fur dubbing

Tail: red floss

Bead: tungsten beads in different colors

Ribbing: UV white Peter’s Ribbing Quill

2 Wet Flies for trout fishing

Here are the used wet flies here in my area in this time  of the season for fishing trout.

GRHE Wet

Hook: Daiichi D1550 #12

Thread: Standard 6/0

Body: Spike dubbing – natural

Tinsel: Uni Oval gold tinsel

Tail: mallard spotted barbs

Wing: duck segments

Hackle: one or two turns of indian brown hackle

March Brown Wet

Hook: Daiichi D1550 #12

Thread: Standard 6/0

Body: brown thread

Tinsel: Uni Oval gold tinsel

Wing: duck segments

Hackle: one or two turns of indian brown hackle