Fishing: Fly of the Week — tough Damsebaetis

By Curtis FrySpecial to the TribuneFirst published Mar 30 2011 04: 01 PM
Updated Mar 30, 2011 09: 08 PM whether you love or hate, ice-fishing off some unique and challenging fishing opportunities present on local stillwaters. As fickle as the weather this time of year, ice-fishing off just as incoherent. A few years ago a friend of mine, Clark Pierce, came up with a large stillwater attractor nymph he called the Damsebaetis. The fly pattern is a wonderful combination of characteristics of the common damsel fly and callibaetis nymphs found in most stillwaters. As I tend to do with a lot of flying, I came up with a variant of this pattern using a bead of the thorax and UV tough skin to the body. The preferred technique for this pattern is to fish under a slip indicator and give a bit of traffic if you fish. The traditional sinking line presentation will work as well.Imitation? Callibaetis or damsel nymphWhen to use ‧ very effective beginning of the season on stillwaters, but works great all year.Where ‧ most stillwaters.How to fish the ‧ if a nymph from an indicator can be fished. But very effective when a dry fly deleted before, during or after a hatch as a emerger.Hook Mustad C49S # 10Thread ‧ Ultra wire UTC 70 oliveTail Brown ‧ partridgeRibbing ‧ copper Brown UTC Ultrawire small Body ‧ Brown UV tough SkinWing mottled Gold case with copper skin Skinny Holo tinsel medThorax Brown Enforcer Laser yarnLegs ‧ Brown partridge eyes ‧ 50 lb Mono (burned) tying InstructionsSlide the Pearl on the hook and start the thread for the Pearl on the eye of law the hook. Note that this is not the normal way a Pearl in your fly patterns. The mono-eye and figure-eight wrap them securely on the hook. Snug the bead right up against the wire behind the mono-eye wraps and wire back over in the bead, continue to wrap to the bend of the hook. Tie in the tail fibers, wire and UV tough skin on the bend, wrapping the tough skin forward and the thread ribbing about it. Tie in the Skinny skin and tinsel on the thorax in case of a wing. The thorax Dub and tie in the partridge feather, truncated in a "V" shape, for the legs. Secure the wing case on the thorax with two wraps, move the thread about the Pearl and tying off the wing case materials in the front of the Pearl. Dub around the mono-eye, build a small wire head for the eyes and whip finish.Curtis Fry lives in Orem and tyres flies "for pure necessity and as a creative outlet. I go myself into thinking that it is that a cheaper alternative to buying flies. It is an addiction that I am forced to comply. "

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