Red Setter Streamer Freshwater Hook : Sizes 2 -8 Limerick (Mustad 3666). Thread : Black waxed. Head : Black varnish. Tail : Brown or ginger squirrel tail. Body : Orange chenille. Hackle : Ginger (Brown) Cock hackles.
Tying Instructions 1. Tie thread from eye to bend of hook. I secure this with flytying cement. 2. Tie in a few squirrel tail fibres for the tail. 3. Tie in chenille, bring tying thread forward, and then wind chenille around hook to about halfway between eye and bend then tie off. Tie in a large ginger hackle, wind on hook, then tie off. Tie thread back over the base of the hackle so the hackles lies at about 45 degrees to the body 4. Tie in chenille again, wind thread forward to eye, and then chenille forward to near the eye, leaving room for a hackle to be tied in and the head to be finished. Tie off the chenille and then tie in another large ginger hackle, wind hackle on hook with same procedure as before. Tie this off and then finish of with the head. Glue and paint black. With smaller hooks only a hackle at the head may be necessary, but with larger hooks two, three or four hackles can be tied in. I made one using a size 2 hook and tied in three hackles.
Fly Notes Original tier, Mr Geoff Sanderson of Turangi NZ.
Fishing Notes When fishing in a river, cast upstream and allow to drift with the current, retreiving as the line does so, quite often the take is as the fly turns and straightens at the end of the drift. Leader length is dependant upon water depth, and flyline weight according to the current speed. In waters such as the Tongariro, a super fast sinking line would be used, to get the fly down close to the bottom as fast as possible. When fishing still water, cast and retrieve is the method, if possible fishing over a deepwater dropoff. Targeted species, Rainbow Trout.
Location Notes This is a general use fly and can be used in most waters, from lake waters to rivers and including lake harling. This is a daytime fly but can also be effective at night. In rivers it is fished downstream through pools. In the Taupo area it is used to fish for lake-run trout.
Prey Notes Possibly Suggestive of a Koura. NZ freswater cray.
Tier Ken Jones

|   AFS Home   |   Swaps   |   Fly Box   |   Search   |