Fly pattern wanted please..

  • Thread starter Richard[reformed fly angler]Huggett
  • Start date
R

Richard[reformed fly angler]Huggett

Guest
Ages back Trout Fisherman magazine had an article about winter fishing for rainbows, and the writer reported catching well on his own tyings of a fly he called an 'anorexic nymph'...just a few wisps of material around a hook and that was it.

Does anybody remember that article or have a pattern for the fly? It was about two years back now, I believe the writer's name was Paul Proctor? Or something similar??
 
A

Alan Tyler

Well-known member
Joined
May 2, 2003
Messages
4,282
Reaction score
51
Location
Barnet, S.Herts/N. London
Sounds a bit like Barden's hare's ear - a skinny hare's ear dubbing body tied short (about half the lenght of the shank) on a B175, with about three turns of pearly or gold ribbing.I don't remember there being a thorax, but it was a while back...but I think that's it - thread, dubbing, rib.
 
S

Sean Meeghan

Guest
Richard

I thought Paul Proctor was mainly a river fisherman. I have a tying for anorexic diawl bach from Bob Churches Guide to Champions Fly Patterns (an excellent refernce guide), (please send the money to my off-shore account Mr Church).

The pattern is a fairly standard tying of the fly but without the beard hackle.

Hook: Heavy Grub size 8-14
Tying silk: Red
Tail: Red game cock fibres
Body: One bronze peacock herl clipped short
Rib: Fine copper wire
Beard hackle: Red Game cock
Head: Clear Varnish

It does have a beard hackle - looking very closely at the picture there are only about 3 fibres used. Start tying the body about level with halfway between the point of the hook and the barb and keep it very slim. Like the beard hackle the tail is only a whisp - say 5 fibres.

The pattern is by a guy called John White and its supposed to target the better residential trout and avoid the stockies.

Hope that helps - I'll keep an eye open for anything else similar.
 
R

Richard[reformed fly angler]Huggett

Guest
Hmm..can't remember it all, can't even remember where the guy was fishing or what. Memory is getting duller..

There was very little of the dressing at all, and I did tie some up and caught a couple of Chalk Springs rainbows on them. If[IF] I remember correctly, the body was just a couple of turns of thread, a peacock herl thorax and a copper wire rib or at least something similar.

Thanks anyway guys for the help.
 
R

Richard[reformed fly angler]Huggett

Guest
Thank you Ian...scanned right through the whole lot and no signs of my anorexic nymph!!
I'll find it though...they don't call me Sherlock for nothing!
 
R

Richard[reformed fly angler]Huggett

Guest
Thought so....getting there then. Slowly...
 
N

NT

New member
Joined
May 12, 2004
Messages
1
Reaction score
0
February 2003 Trout Fisherman. 'Barely there' in freezing temperatures Paul Proctor seduces some very wary rainbows with a team of nymphs so scantily-clad they're nearly naked.
Most are a bare hook with a thorax tied on of pink, black etc..
tight lines, Neil.
 
R

Richard[reformed fly angler]Huggett

Guest
That's the one!!! Well done Neil!!
 
I

Ian Alexander

New member
Joined
Feb 17, 2006
Messages
0
Reaction score
0
I came across a hars ear scantily clad too. Again, it had some pearlescent ribbing and a very thin dub of hare's mask.(Two fibres of pheasant tail for the tail). It was on a size 18 hook.
I used it on a farnham lake when darkness was almost there. The fish were very happy to take it then. I have copied it many times and taken fish on very bright days with it when nothing else works. It's one of the easiest hare's ears to tie and also, like all hare's ears, isn't affected by untidy tying. In fact, the messier it is, the better it seems to work.
 
R

Richard[reformed fly angler]Huggett

Guest
Oh, I can do messy Ian...it's my middle name!
 
I

Ian Alexander

New member
Joined
Feb 17, 2006
Messages
0
Reaction score
0
Ahhh, another specialist ragtag tier!
We had a demonstrator come to a guild meeting-Charles Jardine. An outstanding tier. He tied a daddylonglegs and broke one of the legs. A member said it was ok, the fish can't count. Charles said: "But I can!" He stripped the hook and started again. Perhaps that's why he's so damned good!

I have to say that with the exception of dry flies, the trout seems to be very tolerant of untidy flies. :)
 
R

Richard[reformed fly angler]Huggett

Guest
You should have seen some of the things I used to tie and use when I first started fly tying years ago..my old mate used to say they looked like a dead sparrow on a hook. But I caught fish with them.
And I've never seen a natural fly all poshed up to go out on the water... :)
 
I

Ian Alexander

New member
Joined
Feb 17, 2006
Messages
0
Reaction score
0
When the 'bows are feeding, it dosen't often matter too much what you present under the water. The top(dry) is another matter. I have had them so agressive that I have taken 10 in as many casts!(Catch and release)
 
R

Richard[reformed fly angler]Huggett

Guest
I'd agree with that Ian...trouble is, nobody ever tells the bu**ers that when I'm on the water.
I fished with my mate at Avington once...he had his limit in half an hour, and then spent the next four hours waiting for me, we shared the same car.
I nicked his fly...I used his rod...he even cast out for me a couple of times. It took me ages to catch a fish...he'd eaten all the sarnies and drunk most of the tea by the time I was ready to go home!
 
I

Ian Alexander

New member
Joined
Feb 17, 2006
Messages
0
Reaction score
0
I fished a competition once and was doing really well. A "mate" shouted at the top of his voice across the lake....:"He's using maggots!"
When you are fishing a comp with strangers, the last thing you want is some twit shouting that!-uh, they were casters! :-D
 
R

Richard[reformed fly angler]Huggett

Guest
I trust they were artificial casters Ian...you could JUST about get away with that sort of thing!!
 
I

Ian Alexander

New member
Joined
Feb 17, 2006
Messages
0
Reaction score
0
I was joking Richard.
So was my mate. He only got two fish that day to my fourteen! :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top