Carrot wet fly

 

Orange is a colour that that seems to be quite attractive to trout and hot spots of orange are used very successfully in quite a few flies.

This fly came about as an extension of the idea of using very popular carrot dry fly and has turned out to be a great weighted attractor fly to use on the top or middle dropper when fishing a representation fly on the point to river fish.

Materials

Hook TBH Thread Weight Tail Rib Body Emerging wing Thorax
Hanak grub #10 to #14 Orange Orange 6/0 Lead wire Orange hackle fibres Fine copper wire Orange seals fur Siman black peacock dubbing Hends Nc 35 Spectra dubbing

Process

 

A
  1. Most beads have a large opening at one end and a smaller opening at the other. Slide a tungsten bead over the point of the hook small opening first and position it behind the eye of the hook.
  2. Wind the thread in touching turns to directly above the point of the hook.
  3. Tie your wire in along the top of the hook shank and then add desired number or wraps of lead wire. On this size #12 fly I have used a 3.0 mm bead and 10 wraps of 0.015 lead wire.
  4. Tie in a tail equal 1/2 to 2/3 the length of the hook shank. Resist the temptation to make the tail too bulky and too long.

 

B
  1. Tie in a length of copper wire.

 

C
  1. Dub on a slim tapered body along the length of the fly.

 

D
  1. Wind the wire ribbing along the body of the fly forming 5 or 6 segments.
  2. Take several touching turns of the copper wire behind the bead head before worrying off the excess wire.
  3. Take a small bunch of peacock dupping and tie it in just a little behind the bead. This is only a subtle hot spot so resist the temptation to tie in too much.
  4. Pinch the excess dubbing off leaving just a small tuft to represent an emerging wing bud.

 

E
  1. Roll a small amount of spectre dubbing onto the thread and dub on a collar between where the wing bud is tied in and the back of the bead.
  2. Take several tight wraps of thread directly behind the bead.
  3. Whip finish behind the bead, trim the thread and varnish the thread behind the bead and the bead itself.

 



Last Updated: April 17, 2015
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Categories: Bead head nymphs, Flies, My "trout" nymph fly box, Trout flies
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