Snakehead Fry imitation fly pattern

 

Snakehead Fry imitation

The fries that I'm trying to imitate

Snakehead, also know in Malaysia as Toman... a predator species that lives in our river and dam. Is a common game fish for many game and lure fishermen.

It's fries is an good imitation for those who plan to fish for the Hampala Barb ( Sebarau ) as we realize Sebarau like to attach Snakehead fries... maybe they are natural enemy in the water...

The Materials:

Streamer hook size 6-8

Dumb bell eye

Finn Raccoon Zonker Yellow and white

Flashabou

Ultra Wing pearl dubbing

Marker - Orange and Black

The step by step tying instruction:

Prepare the hook and tie in the dumb bell eye

Tie in small amount of white Raccoon zonker's fiber

Tie in another same amount of yellow Raccoon zonker's fiber on top

Do a dubbing loop and roll in some Ultra Wing dubbing

Spin the dubbing to create the belly

Tie in some flashabou

Tie in some Yellow Raccoon zonker's fiber, whip finish

Use an Orange maker and highlight the top

Use a black maker to draw the line

Drop some head cement and the fly is ready...

The tying technique is similar of tying a clouser.... and it's very simple.

Now we don't have to worry how to apply different color of materials to create color on the fly, just simply color it with makers...

Cheers

J Hook Furry Cray

J Hook Furry Cray

Inspired by a very talented fly tier, Jon Makim who tie a very interesting shrimp pattern with J hook, sort of tube pattern combine with a J hook, that works very well as a weedless pattern. 

Tube Shrimp tied by Jon Makim

Received some Daiichi sample hooks from Anglers Sport Group, I decided to try out the idea tying a weedless cray fish pattern on the Daiichi 4350 

The result .... nice..!!! hope you all like it...

Materials:

Daiichi J Hook style 4350 size 01

Head and Body - Furry foam

Eye - Black bead mono eye

Pincher - Knob furry foam cut out

Legs - Micro Chenille

Antenna - Pheasant tail fiber, flashabou and Calf body hair

Some dubbing and Dumb bell
Hard wire and 100lbs floro mono

Step by step tying instruction:

Cut a short length of hard wire and join the mono to the wire

 Tie in the furry foam and bead eye

 Tie in the Calf body hair, Pheasant tail fiber then add some flashabou

 Roll in some dubbing, preferably orange or pink color, tie in a pcs of micro chenille

 

 Tie in the pair of knob furry foam pincher

Tie in 4 pairs of micro chenille legs, spin the micro chenille to split the legs

 Tie down the head profile,Spin the rest of the micro chenille cover the mono line

Tie in the dumb bell to the J Hook

Cut the hard wire to the length and tie it down to the hook, drop a small drop of zap a gap to secure the tie

Figure 8 and tie the tail fin... trim the legs and whip finish

Color the Cray fish with marker... the J Hook Furry Cray is complete

View from side

View from bottom

 

Tacklebox Split Tail

My version of - Tacklebox Split Tail

Tacklebox Split Tail, is a pattern originally design and tie by Nick Ooi of Tacklebox Adventure Fly Shop. This pattern is specially effective for our local freshwater Hercules - 'Sebarau' or to be accurate - Hampala macrolepidota. The Tacklebox Split Tail is commonly tie in Red or Orange... not sure why the 'Sebarau' like it in that colors but other colors are less effective. 

The picture of Nick with his 'Sebarau'

The original Tacklebox Split Tail tie by Nick Ooi

Dron's version of Tacklebox Split Tail

Materials :

Arctic Fox hair - Red or Orange

Cork neck heckle - Red or Orange

SLF D.Whitlock Minnow Belly Dubbing

Flashabou

Streamer hook size 8-6

Lead Eye dumb bell

The step by step tying instructions:

Prepare the streamer hook

Tie in the dumb bell eye

Tie in a small amount of Arctic Fox Hair

Tie in a pair of Cork Neck heckle, make sure it's tie split outwards

Prepare a dubbing loop and dub in the SLF Minnow Belly dubbing

Spin in the dubbing to create a belly

Brush the dubbing

Tie in the flashabou at the side

Tie in another bunch of Arctic Fox Hair, trim the extra

Tie in some flashabou on top of the Arctic Fox Hair

Whip finish and apply the head cement

A complete Tacklebox Split Tail

Some Tacklebox Split Tail tied ... White is also my favorite.

Cuban Shrimp

Cuban Shrimp

This is a very simple and yet effective shrimp pattern that I developed in 2009. specially for Maldives and Cuba... My Mentor and friend Mr Hans Van Klinken and his wife have successfully hook up many Cuban bonefish with this pattern, in the wonderful fishing experience with Avalon.

For your reference, some flies that Hans was using in Cuba :

http://www.flyfishinggazette.com/Avalon/flies_bonefish.htm

The flies that I send over

The flies after the fishing... totally destroyed by the bones

The Bonefish with the flies

The materials:

Bead eye or mono eye

Bead chain

Pink, light sulp orange dubbing

Flashabou

Coyote hair

Chenille - Tan colour

Rubber legs

Gamakatsu or Daiichi New O'Shaughnessy hook size 8-6

The step by step tying instructions:

Put in the hook and prepare the thread

Tie in the bead chain

Tie in the flashabou

Tie in the dubbing, mix of Pink and orange dub

Tie in the eye ( I use Pink bead with mono line )

Tie in the chenille

Tie in the rubber legs

Spin the chenille to split the legs, tie down the chenille

Tie in the Coyote hair

Spin the chenille until the bead chain, tie down, trim the Coyote hair

Whip finish, drop a small drop of Zap a gap to secure the tie.

The Cuban Shrimp is ready

Good luck and have fun fishing with the shrimp.

Cheers....