The
Crippled Dun our most successful hatch-making fly on the South
Island rivers. It imitates an emerging mayfly trapped in the
nymphal shuck and is fished dry in the surface film. A Zelon
shuck to match the colour of the nymph's skin with body, wing
and hackle colour chosen to match the emerging adult.
This pattern is from the vice of Craig Matthews at Blue Ribbon
Flies in West Yellowstone, Montana. |
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An
alternative sparser approach to the trapped emerger concept
is the Sparkle Dun. The upright elk hair wing and dubbed body
are finished by the addition of a Zelon shuck. Zelon is used
for the shuck in both flies for its translucency and sparkle
that imitates the appearance of the natural shuck.
This pattern is also from the vice of Craig Matthews. |
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A
heavy, fast sinking pattern, the Deep Caddis Pupa has an iridescent
flashback over a dubbed body of sparkle yarn. Wire ribbing
strengthens the fly and provides segmentation of the abdomen.
The dubbed thorax is covered by a feather fibre wing case
and the fly is finished with dyed partridge hackle fibres
for the tail.
This Dean Bell pattern caught our biggest NZ brown trout at
9Ibs. |
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