Well been somewhat
busy lately, hence no posts and doesn’t time fly when you’re well busy,
unfortunately it hasn’t involved any fishing due to crap weather, I mean what’s
up with the weather just now I mean were in June and it still feels like bloody
winter really strange year so far and to make things worse I managed to drop a
pack of hot orange beads (for perch flies) in my hot chocolate drink, well
there you go right there if it was the weather it should be for this time of
year I wouldn’t be drinking hot chocolate id have a nice cold water on my desk
which by the way the packet of beads wouldn’t of fallen into the bottle top and
even if they did they wouldn’t make the same kind of mess as the picture below
, and to add insult to injury one lonesome bead had fallen into the cup which ,
yes you guessed it I swallowed ………
So the main reason I’ve
been quite on the blog is the new hook myself and an old buddy have launched
has been doing very well and with all new baby’s it needs tender care and
plenty of hours work if you wish to
check us out we are here
I really enjoyed
doing the small ant patterns on the carp talons these have always been great
for roach especially the one with red tag and also had a few grayling with that
one great pattern
Of course when it
comes down to fly fishing for coarse species one of the best flies you can get
is a plain old maggot pattern yup there pretty much no fish that won’t snap up
the old maggot when it floats by, you can either fish this just floated down a
river or stream or fish it in slow moving waters or lakes under a float
indicator or inched back dead slow along the bottom , the great thing about
this pattern is that by using a very thin coating of deercreeks tack free uv
gives it a slight wet look which in the wild is very natural but overall a
great fly and having a few in your box will help save the day especially on
slow days give em a try oh and did I tell you they are a killer on trout waters
in the uk ………J
Back to the meat
and potatoes
Just really messing
around with a few pike patterns based on the Bart o minnow mixing up a few martials
just for fun .off course playing with patterns is great but as always work gets
in the way and I have to get some flies made for a client this time in the form
of some big crease flies, with crease flies for pike I like to toughen them up
a bit, because if I just left them stuck together with the adhesive they would
only last a couple of fish before being ripped apart but by using a good glue
that goes rock solid like croc glue and by gluing them together with croc glue
you get a solid and longer lasting crease fly as you can see I use plastic pegs
to hold them together while the glue expands , if I didn’t use pegs the glue
expanding would just push the sides apart this is a cheap and easy way to hold
the 2 sides together
These below are
tail less versions and to be honest it really makes no difference if it has a
tail or not the only time I usually stick tails on is when I need bigger snax
to give the illusion of something bigger, but these work very well especially
on sinking lines in deep water inched along the bottom deadly, I love em
A larger version with
a little tail and a bigger eye the hook is a 6/0 the creasers above are on 4/0s
Below is the view
of my desk im still busy at it, I do weather pending have a couple of days
booked fluff throwing but it all depends on the weather but im really itching
at the bit to get out hopefully next week will be good the long range forecast
is looking ok so fingers crossed
My son visits me
quite often in the cave , plenty of things for him to look at and of course
sowing the seeds for a future fly tier I really hope he gets an understanding
wife ……………
Have fun
Mcfluffchucker
(a cave in Scotland
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