I'm beginning to graduate to fishing with dry flies - My casting is such that I'm getting more accurate, however my ability (and wallet!) to "match the hatch" is rather meagre, so can folk reccomend a good set of "all purpose" dry flies to have for most rivers? Is there a dry fly you would never not have in your box?
Thanks
Davy
Parachute Adams, Parachute Olive, F-fly and anything tiny and black.
Alex
Rivers and lochs: olive sparkle dun, black gnat
mainly lochs: amber hopper, natural CDC suspender buzzer
I'd happily fish all year with the above in various sizes but other flies in the box distract me!
Malcolm
QuoteShame on you guys. No Klinkhammer????
So to answer your question KLINKHAMMER (all the colours and sizes)
Buzz good point. What size of Klink do you fish on the Clyde on a normal day in summer? I ask because Col and Brian were fishing 10s at the Don last week and getting fish. I was fishing smaller flies, but not Klinks. Don't think I have any larger than a 12.
Alex
I used to fish klinks all the time but found getting them sitting on the water properly a right pain. So much so that I have all but stopped fishing them. I thought it was just my tying ability but I have the same problem with shop bought ones. I now tend to go for a dirty duster type hackle but with a poly yarn post sticking up through the middle of it.
Anyway back to the question if I simply wanted a few go to dries for the river it would be a Dirty Duster, F-Fly and some wee black things.
Norm
This lot would see me through a season.
Deer Hair Emerger, CDC & Elk, Ollie Edwards CDC Dun, Adams, Cullard.
favourite dry fly just now for me is the daddylong legs.
also like using klinks but i also find that after a few cast it doent sit right on the water.also no good if the ripple is just a tad to big as it sinks the klink as the daddy will sit on the surface allday long
Funny how fashion changes,wickhams fancy was the dry fly I was told never to be without(winged or wingless),still use 'em.
Thank all! How I just have to learn to cast them properly :-)
Wright's Royal 12 -16
:cheers;
.D.
Thread: Black
Body: One part peacock herl ( I twist 3-4 strands into a rope around tying thread, for strength), one part red floss (I use Glo-brite shade 3), one part peacock herl again.
Wing: Elk Hair - natural or bleached
Thorax: peacock herl (though you could use ice dub or similar )
Hackle : brown cock, thorax style over the herl.
Cheers,
.D.
Quote from: uncleboo on June 16, 2007, 11:51:31 PM
Dammit, I was wrong...it's a bloody good flee :D
.D., thanks for the tying.
Where does the Wright bit come in?
After the bloke who came up with it - some american called Phil Wright.
To my mind it pisses all over any of the other Royal Coachman style dry flies - floats better, easier to tie, quicker to tie and looks more like something a fish might eat. Unlike the others e.g. Royal Wulff, Royal Trude etc. it doesn't have a tail - so it sits with the back end parked below the film, supported by the Elk hair wing.
I tie it slightly long, proportion wise - gives it more of a caddis or stonefly look I think.
GREAT "search" pattern! :D
Cheers,
.D.
Quote from: .D. on June 17, 2007, 12:04:42 AM
GREAT "search" pattern! :D
I'll tie up a few of these .D. - in spite or the name - :D thanks for that
Quote from: admin on June 17, 2007, 08:40:58 AM
Quote from: .D. on June 17, 2007, 12:04:42 AM
GREAT "search" pattern! :D
I'll tie up a few of these .D. - in spite or the name - :D thanks for that
It'll be worth it! :D
It helps if you're quite generous with the Elk. Let it flare a bit too.
A version with black herl and a black hackle works OK when August's seasonal vegetable , the Heather Fly is on :wink:
Cheers,
.D.