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Wet Nymph Fly Dry Fly Fishing and Poppers
Posted in Fly Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Flies on the August 6, 2007
Dry Fly Fishing on the surface and wet fly subsurface flies are the two most common fly fishing categories. Just as the name indicates the surface flies usually suspend themselves on the surface of the water. The submariners or wet flies go below the surface of the water imitated the aquatic life cycle of the mimicked insect.
Popovers, oops that’s breakfast!
Fly Fishing Tips Poppers are one of the most popular and effective fly baits. The popper is simply trying to pass itself off a member of the fish’s food chain. Imitating larger insects, frogs and even bait fish just for starters.
You will find fancy paint jobs, doll eyes and rubber legs dressing the poppers, making them look great to us, but do you for one second think that a largemouth bass really cares.
The most important thing about poppers is well, they “pop”. Their flat and concaved heads cause and gurgling and popping sound when retrieved across the surface of the water.
Sub surface flies come in three main types. You will find the nymphs, wet flies and the streamers.
Nymph flies imitate the nymphal stage of aquatic insects. This is the stage before the adult, the dry stage of aquatic insect life. These flies certainly weigh more than the dry flies and of course you can easily add weight to help them sink to the proper fishing depth for the conditions you are in. The additional weight will make them a little more difficult to cast but, the wind resistance will be a lot less.
You will notice that most wet flies imitating the adult stage will have wings where the nymph will be wingless. Some nymphs represent small crustaceans like the scud or sow bug.
Streamers are the final group of the sub surface baits. Steamers are usually meant to resemble minnows or other types of bait fish like perch or shad. A streamer is usually tied to a longer hook and has long sloping wings to form the body of the fish.
You will often find them in larger sizes up to 5 inches long and sometime even bigger. Often they will have lead weights for eyes at the front. This extra weight can give the steamer a jiggling motion, and even causes the hook point to ride point up making the streamer a snag less as it rides across the bottom of the lake or river.
Imitating the subsurface aquatic life cycle of many insects is the wet fly. Often lacking in the feathery collar and wingless and by designing them to be heavier by wrapping lead wire on the hook shank before tying the fly making it sink to be fished below the surface.
Keeping your surface fly “high and dry” will be easier with the aid of fly floatant, a silicone gel you work into the fly feathers with your finger tips, or you can also find it in a spray bottle variety. Many anglers prefer the Gink and Aquel brands which prove to be very effective.
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Whether you are dry fly fishing, popping for blue gills and largemouth bass or working a minnow-imitating streamer always be prepared for the whack and very hard pull of a strike. There is nothing more thrilling than catching a trophy fish. You can find more informative Fly Fishing Tips advice and Fly Fishing Tips tips!
Making Your Own Fly Fishing Lures
Posted in Fly Fishing Flies on the July 3, 2007
Tying or making your own fly fishing lures is a great way to find something to fill in those cold winter nights until fly fishing season hits again. Flies are not difficult to tie, plus using your own supplies and designing your own patterns is a great way to find new flies for those huge trout and bass in the spring and summer months. Basically the easiest type of fly to make for a first timer at making their own fly fishing lures is a dry fly.
Basic Dry Fly Fishing Lures
Start tying a dry fly it is important to get the supplies together that you need. Typically this will involve a small vice to hold the hook, a basic hook, some thread, some small feathers or course animal hair such as deer or elk hair or synthetic materials found in sporting goods stores for making fly fishing lures usually called hackle barbs.
1. Place the hook in the vice with the bend of the hook clamped tightly and the shank end of the hook facing away from the vice. If you are right handed, hold your left forefinger along the shank of the hook and begin wrapping the thread by holding it closes to the bend with the left finger and wrapping it several times up to the end of the shank or the eye. There will be lots of hook showing through the thread. When you get to the end switch direction and bring the thread back, crossing over each of the previous loops to form an X pattern around the shank. When you get back to the original first wrap slide the left finger away and leave the thread hanging, holding everything in place.
2. Measure the tail material, and cut off the excess length. In standard fly fishing lures the tail will be the same length as the same length as the hook shank length but remember that there will be a slight amount needed to tie the tail to the hook. Position the hackle barbs or the hairs so they will butt up against the wings about half way down the length of the hook shank. Loosely wrap the hanging thread around the tail bundle on the side closes to you, then tighten the thread and pull to the other side, moving the hair bundle to the top of the hook bend. Secure with extra wraps of thread.
3. To make the thicker part of the body you need dubbing, which is twisted onto the thread and then the thread is wrapped around the hook shank, creating the desired shape. The body or dub should start just behind the wings and taper through to the tail.
4. Cut the hens feathers or hackle tips to the desired length, which is the same length as the shaft of the hook from the start of the bend to the eye. Angling the center shaft of the feather on the side of the hook you are working and down, start to wrap the front of the feather shaft, holding the feather straight. Increase the wrap and then push the feather more upright, wrapping behind the shaft of the feather. This will pull the wings into the upright position. Repeat on the other side then gently spread the wings apart and position.
5. Add additional hackle feathers to the front of the fly fishing lure, using finer feathers the further forward on the fly you travel. Three to five wraps should be all that is needed to secure these fine feathers.
To tie off the thread make three or four loose loops letting the thread bobbin fall through the loop and then pulling tightly. This will secure the tie and ensure that your fly fishing lures will not unravel in the water.
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