t.z. | Friday, 5 February 2016
This one is right from a Hotel room in Trondheim, Norway.
We have covered emergers before with the Klinkhamer. A truly amazing fly, but pretty complicated to tie and one needs rather expensive materials. Now I´ll show the same concept of fly - an emerger pattern - which is very easy to tie and only uses two materials.
OK, the hares feet are not so easy to get - specifically if one insists on arctic hare, but one can substitute that with deer hair for the wing. Don´t use rabbit ... it does not float as well and on top (this is for the environmentally conscious) - Rabbits are kept in cages ... that´s bad I think.
The wing material is hair taken from in between the toes of an arctic hares foot. This material is hydrophobic, meaning is does not get wet. The natural color is white or slightly off white. It is very easy to see on the water. The body of the fly is dubbed with finely chopped hares hair and is meant to be submerged when fished. The wing is above the water film.
Hares Hair Emerger
This is what you need:
a vice, desk, lamp, a hares foot,
dubbing, thread and a pair of scissors -
and a hook of course
put the hook in the vice, attach thread and dub the thread
- note that the dubbing starts by the hook eye -
- dub the body -
and than wind the thread over the dubbing in open turns
take a bit of hares hair from the foot and tie it in tips facing fowards
dub the thread some more and wind this under the wing making it stand up
finish with a half hitch
snip of the remains and you are done
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