Rory re your query
Originally Posted by
chris williams
The innuendos really seem to be flying here!
Simple blackfly larvae flies are easy to tie for those that havn't tried. The natural has a small thin body mainly uniform in colour, very drab dark dun/olive/brown or black. It's bottom-heavy, it has a slightly fat butt (here we go again..) and it's slightlt transparent. The natural has a sucke ron the fat end that it hangs of twigs/structure from. On it's head it has a hook-like leg. When it wants to move it often mountaneers as the guys say. It casts a white thread or climbing rope and with the aid of the hook to pull it along and the sucker to hold it in place it inches along. Something like a size 14 standard nymph hook with a couple of turns of very thin lead wire or wine bottle strip at the base, overwound with thin wraps of appropriate floss colour. Overwrap this with this say 2lb Maxima U'green to give translucency. Fly will float 'bottom down' with the head facing downstream (if you're nymphing upstream' like the natural. Some guys paint part of their tippet white to imitate the 'climbing rope' but I must admit I havn't been bothered to try that as yet. Very useful as a general pattern as a point fly with a heavier control before it. We discussed 'similar on Simulidae' some time back on another thread including how the adult bloodthirsty beggars go for blue shirts!
(Was it Tye who ordered a blue Flytalk shirt for the Vaal? I can't remember offhand!)
Cheers Chris
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