Frutti di mare part 2
Autumn is a very good time for sea trout fishing. The fish are in excellent condition. They become most active when the water temperature drops below 12 degrees C. They can be found practically in all places that an angler can reach with a fly rod. They are not only on the so-called „leopard bottom”, but also on flat, sandy, seemingly uninteresting tops. Of course, it is mandatory to fish the strip of water in front of the first reef first - often this is where the first bites occur. An important part of the food of sea trout in this period - in addition to small fish - are various species of invertebrates, including most often small crustaceans - shrimp and gudgeons, as well as annelids (nereids).
Artificial flies intended to imitate these animals often resemble the prototypes in a rather conventional way. It is best when - as in the case of many artificial flies with effectiveness confirmed over the years - they combine the characteristics of whole groups of organisms of interest to trout in autumn. It is good to make them in a wide range of shades of brown, purple and olive. Additional accents in aggressive colors ( red, orange) work well. Clearly accentuated imitations of eyes are characteristic of these designs.
It is important to place a small load in the front of the hook shank - a few coils of wire, a tungsten head or a conehead. When we tie a fly constructed in this way to the leader not „rigidly”, but on a loose loop, we will give it an attracting wavy movement when pulling. The most commonly used hook size is 8 and 6. Sometimes very small flies on a 12 hook work as well, sometimes large flies on 4 or even 2 hooks are also effective.
Below are a few proven designs:
Shrimp.
Photo 1.
Materials needed to make the fly: Marine hook size 10-4, grizzly rooster neck feathers for the feelers, some Flashabou pearl fibers, olive dyed grizzly hen neck feather, eyes made of beads strung on fishing line, strip of clear foil, olive yellow dubbing, two-component epoxy resin, glitter.
Photo.2.
To the hook we tie in sequence: a bunch of down feather rays of a hen's feather, eyes, feelers from piles of grizzly rooster feathers( from the feathers we tear off the rays leaving only the short ends), a bunch of fibers of pearl Flashabou.
Photo.3.
Now we tie a strip of foil, a line for the wrapper, a hen's feather from which the rays on one side have been removed, and finally a dubbing twisted with a leading thread.
Photo.4.
Wind the trunk by forming it so that it is thinner and thinner towards the ear of the hook. We make a palmer type blackberry. We cover the whole thing with a strip of foil and rewind it with fishing line.
Now, using a sharp brush and a skewer, we comb down the rays of the blackberry and dubbing fibers.
Photo.5.
Mix resin with glitter.
Photo.6.
Apply resin to the back of the fly.
Photos.7, 8.
Using the rotary function of our vise, we rotate the fly so that the resin flows in a controlled manner and form a neat armor.
Photo.9.
Finished shrimp.
Photo.10.
Pallmered Red Tag - considered one of the more effective and versatile flies by the Dunes.
Chwościk - red wool
Thorax - peacock rays
Blackberry - a brown hen on the entire torso
Scroll - thin wire
Photo.11.
GP Shrimp
A bunch of orange down rays, black bead eyes
The feelers - two Crystal Flash rays
Thorax - rusty red dubbing
Blackberry - red breast feather of the golden pheasant
Scroll - red wire
Photo.12.
Pink Bela Shrimp - my original design, which once brought the first sea trout to one of my colleagues from the Tri-City.
Tip - gold holo lamé
Tail - tippets
Shield - black ostrich
Torso - dubbed in hot pink
Blackberry on the trunk - ash hen
Front blackberry - dark ash heron feather
Scroll - silver wire
Load - copper conehead.
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