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The flooding of new ground and vegetation seems to single to frogs that its time to lay their eggs. Then 10 to 15 days later assuming the water is warm enough and hasn't dropped killing the eggs you can expect a hatch of tadpoles. These tadpoles are a favourite food of trout and you will often find both browns and rainbows systematically searching them out in the shallows.

You don't have to have a specific tadpole fly to target tadpole feeding fish but if you want one this is a beauty. Fish the tadpole fly either on the drop or the lift in shallow water around detritus matter. This action mimics the action of a tadpole coming to the surface to breath and then returning to its cover and is a prime time for trout to strike.

Materials

Process

A	Select a reasonably heavy gauge wire hook for this fly as if the hook is too light the bend and bite wont be heavy enough to act as a keel and the fly will swim on its side or even worse up side down. Understanding hooks Place the hook in the vice and wind thread on the front 1/3 of the hook shank and then return the thread to the 95% position. Tie in a set of burnt monofilament eyes or a set of plastic chain eyes cut from a length plastic chain eyes. These are available from most haberdashery shops. Tying in bead chain and other eyes Wind the thread down the next 1/3 of the hook shank and tie in a length of .020 mm lead wire. Take 10 wraps of the wire in the middle section of the hook shank. Other ways of adding weight to a fly Wind the thread to the bend of the hook.

B	Tie in a marabou tail about as long as the hook. Turn the hook over in the vice an tie in a slip of white feather at the bend of the hook on the bottom side.

C	Turn the hook right way up in the vice and tie in a length of mohair at the bend of the hook. Alternatively you could at this stage load your thread with dubbing. Single strand dubbing

D	Build up an acorn shaped body stopping just short of the eyes. Tie the mohair off but don't trim the excess.

E	Turn the hook back over in the vice and pull the feather slip forward under the fly. Tie it off behind the eyes.

F	Trim away the excess belly material. Turn the hook back right way up in the vice. Pick up the mohair or reload the thread with dubbing. Extend the acorn body right up to the eyes and take the mohair or the dubbing rope round the eyes in a figure of eight. Tie the body material off behind the eye of the hook and trim the excess body material. Whip finish and varnish behind the eye of the hook.

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