Blue Charm, a fly for sunny mornings

Hello

While tying flies for  this year’s trip to Norway and studying my fly boxes, for flies missing or in bad shape, I noticed that my supply of Blue Charms were low, and while tying some I decided to share my two versions of this all time classic with you.

I tie my blue charms in two different versions, one with a hair wing the other a feather winged one, that both are more or less simplified compared to the original pattern. 

The hair winged one has also a fl.green tail instead of the classic yellow one

A swarm of Blue Charms

For me Blue charm is a fly for bright weather, when the sun is high and the visibility in the water is good. I fish the fly in fairly small sizes, Hooks 6-10 mostly.

Condition where the Blue charm is for me the number one choice, is in the morning when the sun is shining directly from downstream on a cloudless sky with water temperatures above 10°C

In these conditions the fly has given me a lot of grilse with a bigger fish here and there, including the 82cm beauty last year.

Best of 2016

Recipes:

Feather winged Blue Charm

Hook: Mustad 3582br

Thread: white, black

Tag: Yellow uni stretch

Tail: Yellow silk

Rib: Medium oval silver

Body: Uni Stretch Black

Wing: Turkey Wing Light

Throat Hackle: Medium Blue hackle fibers

Head: Black Thread

Green But Blue Charm

Hook: Mustad 3582br

Thread: Black

Tag: Medium Oval Gold

Tail: fl Green Fluorofibre

Rib: Medium Oval Gold

Body: Uni stretch black

Hackle: Kingfisher blue

Wing: Brownish grey bucktail

Head: Black Thread