Micro Copper Pupae

Micro Copper Pupae

Tie this little pupae on a size 14 hook... fish as a dropper from a hopper... works great for Grayling in Mongolia recently.

I think... the size does matter in the river we fish, and the rubber legs and sparkling effect of the dubbing does catch some attention

Material List :

Olive copper wire
Rubber legs - fine
Mllard Barred Flank
 Prism Dubbing
Diamond fine UV resin

 Step by step tying instructions:

Prepare the thread base... if you wish to weight it more, you may add some lead wire

Flatten the wire, tie the wire on

Tie the wire on

 Wind in some Prism Dubbing - olive / caddis / brown or yellow as you wish ( try match the hatch of your river )

Now wind in the copper wire

Tie in a pair of rubber leg

 Dub in some Black - Prism dubbing

Fold the fibers over tie down as legs

Fold over the fibers as thorax

Tie in a pair of fibers as antenna

Fold over the fiber, tie down as antenna

 I recommend Diamond Fine UV resin here to coat the thorax

Drop some UV Resin, dry it with UV torch

Barred the rubber legs... The Pupae is ready to be wet...

Cheers and happy tying

Sparkling Pupae

Sparkling Pupae

The Material List

Any heavy Caddis Pupae hook, here I use TMC 2457

Vinyl rib small olive color

Pearl sheet

Pheasant Tail fiber

Goose Biot

Peacock herl

Dubbing

Diamond UV resin - fine

3M surgical tape, lead wire and marker

Step by step tying instructions:

 Prepare the hook

Wind in some lead wire, use surgical tape to create taper body

 Cut a pcs of pearl sheet ( you can get it from book store ), tie it down

Tie down the olive vinyl rib

Put in your dubbing, you may use olive, brown, tan or any desire dubbing to match the hatch )

Fold over the pearl sheet

Wind in the vinyl rib, tie down

Trim the vinyl rib, fold the pearl sheet over

Tie i a pair of goose biot

Tie in 2 pairs of Pheasant tail fibers, both at the side

Fold the pheasant tail fibers to create as wing case

Tie in another pair pheasant tail fibers as the antenna

Wind in some peacock herl fibers

Fold the shorter fiber ( legs ) back, tie down and fold the pearl sheet over, tie down

Bring the 2 antenna over, tie down, whip finish

Color the thorax with marker... drop a small drop of Diamond UV resin

Dry the UV resin with UV torch...

Done... 

Cheers and happy tying

EA Foam Cricket

Extended Abdomen Foam Cricket

Looks like September is the Cricket month... I have put up all my cricket pattern in one shoot... :)

The technique for tying this cricket pattern is very similar with the EA Stonefly X.. just combine that with my Cricket V2 or V3... you will get this.

Material:

Pheasant tail fiber for Antenna and knob legs

Close cell foam - Black, Brown, Tan or Yellow

Tape Wing or Hen Saddle ( cemented ) as Wings

Hook -  TMC 2302 size 6

 Goose biots for tail

Barred rubber legs

Markers

 

Step by step tying instructions:

 

Cut 2 pcs of 2mm or 3mm thick close cell foam ( depend on the size of cricket you are tying )

 

 Tie in the foam as the taper for the abdomen

Tie in the Goose biot, fold over the foam, tie down as the 1st segment of the abdomen

Do a few segment, and tie down at the last... whip finish

Prepare the hook, very important to do a thread base to the hook shank, tie down the abdomen portion

Tie down the foam... with the proper thread base, the foam will not spin around

Take about 8-10 Pheasant tail, knot the fiber to form the legs

Tie in the legs

Continue tying the foam... 

Use a toothpick, make a hole on the foam

Fold the foam over the hook eye

Tie down

Do another hole with the toothpick

Fold the foam over, tie down the lower portion in a figure 8 to create the mouth portion of the cricket ( to secure the foam )

Tie on the foam, about same level with the abdomen

 

Use needle to bring in a pair of Pheasant tail fiber as the antenna, tie down the foam 

 

Trim the head

 

Tie in the rubber legs

 

Color the foam ( Optional )

 

 

Dub in some dubbing

Tie in some floating yarn as inner wing ( Optional )

Tie in the foam wing

Tie in another foam for thorax

Tie down the foam

Trim the foam

Color the cricket ( Optional )

Last step... drop the Loon Hard Head as eye... and...

Take it to the fish....