White Hackled Green&Silver aka. Rimpauttaja variation

Hi Again

This time I’m about to write about one of my accidental creations that have made its way to my top flies.

White Hackled green&silver started out as so many other great patterns, as a miss memorized version of a popular fly on the river Neiden, the Rimpauttaja. (http://perhorasia.fi/Fly/Fly.thtml?flyID=24049 for those of you that can understand Finnish) . Around ten years ago was tying at the camp and tried to copy from memory a fly, I had seen one of the older fishermen use successfully, but I got only the main colors green, silver and the typical white hackle right. None the less it was not long before the newly created pattern caught me some fine grilse after which it has slowly become one of my “go to” patterns in certain conditions. The fly has to date produced more than a dozen fish for me, with the biggest being a bright silvery beauty of 97cm.

WHGS x3

I mainly tend to use the fly in clear water and clear to overcast skies varying the size depending on the temperatures. I tie the fly, as most of my flies, in several sizes varying the size from +10cm tubes to size 10 or smaller doubles

Recipes:

White Hackled Green&Silver

White hackled green&silver:

Hook: 4-10 Double Low Water

Thread: Black

Tag: Oval Silver

Tail: Fl.Green FluoroFibre

Rib: Oval Silver

Body: ½ flat silver

           ½ Peacock green Super Bright dubbing

Wing: Under: Green Squirrel Tail, 

           Top: Dark Brown Nutria

Hackle: White Hen

Head: Black thread

WHGS Tube:

WHGS

Tube: 1-5 cm Black ProTube

Tag: Oval Silver

Tail: Fl.Green FluoroFibre

Belt: Peacock green Super Bright dubbing

Rib: Oval Silver

Body Hackle: bright Green Cock Hackle on Green part of body

Body: ½ silver braid 

           ½ Peacock green Super Bright dubbing

Wing1: Dark Grey Fox with Blue Angelhair

Hackle: White soft Hen

Wing 2: Black Himalayan goat+ Peacock Herl

Head: Silver Cone head

My Pikefly (Slinky Deceiver)

Hi
Its been a while since my last post and as it is, fall is approaching fast, and so is the prime time for pike fishing. So I thought to write about my favorite Pike fly.

So what makes a good pike fly? I think that there are a few things to think of when you tie a pike fly. The number 1 thing is of course, that it must catch fish preferably in a wide variety of situations. This means that it has to be big enough, have a good silhouette and if possible create some "noise" bellow the surface. The second thing to think about is that you should be able to cast the fly effortless for the whole day, this means that the fly must be both light enough for the fly line to turn over and at the same time heavy enough not to overcome its own drag in the air. Last but not least I think about the ease of tying and durability of the fly, because as most of you know the Pike has an impressive set of teeth and tend to treat flies quite harshly.

So with this in mind I have in the course of a couple of years developed a baitfish-pattern that is working quite well for me. The pattern works decently year around in the areas where I fish, is easy enough to cast with a 8 weight rod, endures a lot of fish (mostly over 30 fish) before becoming unusable and is easy enough to tie (takes about 15 min to tie). It is a crossbreed of some of the best known Pike flies in Finland, the Hollow Deceiver and the Slinky Tube(both articles in finnish). This is why I´ve decided to call it Slinky Deceiver. The reason I use Slinky fibre and other H2O products (such as Mirror Image and Deadly Dazzle) is that they are readily available in shops in my region, but any other long enough synthetic material ought to work as well

Recipe: Slinky Deceiver

Tube: 2/4 mm vinyl tube + 4mm silicon tube
Thread: Kevlar
Tail: 3 Pairs of Schlappen+Slinky fibre+Flash(optional)
Body: Slinky fibre/Deadly Dazzle+flash(optional)
Throat: Slinky fibre/Deadly Dazzle
Wing: Slinky fibre
Head: Hot-glue
Eyes: 3D-Eyes

Tying the Slinky Deceiver:

Combine the tube and the hook holder with superglue

Add some lead

Tie in the Schlappen

Tie some Slinky Fibre on top of the Schlappen about in the middle of the fibers and secure with superglue

Double the fibers back on top of themselves

Add and double the flash (Secure with superglue)

Halve the next batch of fibres as shown bellow

Tie in the halved fibres so that about 3 cm(1 inch) of the batch is pointing back (Remember the superglue)

Double the batch back

Add another batch in the same manner (Optional:Tie flash on top of the first batch)

Halve and tie in the throat (About half back and half front)(Remember glue)

Tie in the top wing (do not halve)(Remember glue)

Double both top wing and throat back and finish the thread

Use a cable tie to keep the fibers in wanted position while you make the head

Add some hot-glue and attach the eyes

Cut off the excess tube and make the final form to the head by heating the glue with a lighter and forming it with MOIST fingers (otherwise the glue will stick on your fingers and in worst case cause burns)

Color the head after it has cooled down with some markers 

and the fly is ready for action

 The color above is called Jeppan 
(my adaptation of a like named Buster Jerk color)

So this is how to tie my favorite pike fly, in future articles i might return to this pattern to give away some other color combinations that I have had success with