Lumino

Lumino

Lumino - luminous bead hidden in the head of minnow fly pattern

is a pattern I came up while designing for a heavily weighted fly or jig fly where local commonly call spin-fly

 

I wanted a pattern which have the same shape but light enough for fly fishing with different sink rate. and smaller in size too.

 Using a luminous bead,  It create a round head profile easily which push more water, hollow and less material, skinny tail and glow in the dark..

 Spin-fly

Spin-fly... with a round lead weight insert to an attached hard wire in-front of the hook.

heavily weighted so it can be easily cast out with ultra light spinning gear targeting mainly bass and bottom fishes. the weight bring the fly down very fast ( this is also a good concept if you are designing a heavy fly to fish deep or in fast current )

The round lead bead in the front provide a good base to create a very nice round head profile

Materials List:

Synthetic fiber for tail - super hair or similar

ICE dub - belly

Red dubbing - gills

Luminous bead 

Mega Dub or Lazer Dub - head

Super fine long dubbing - for head profile highlight

DC flex UV resin

3D epoxy eye

Semperfli Nano silk - 12/0

Picture step by step tying instruction:

 Insert the Luminous Bead, wind in some lead wire

 Tie in some super hair

 Dub in some ICE dub as the belly

 Wind in some red dubbing as gills

  tie in the Mega Dub

 Fold the rest of the Mega dub, tie in and comb the material to the back

 Tie in the fine wool dub

 Fold all back and comb it

Coat a thin layer of Flex UV resin to shape the head

 Drop a small drop of epoxy

 Apply the eye

 View from below

View from top

 This pattern is best tie from size 2" - 4"... by adding a lateral flash, you can tie a silverside, by tuning the wool colour you can easily turn it into a mullet or any little baitfish or minnow pattern.

Cheers and Happy tying...