Fished on top dropper or on the point this fly a great option for drawing fish to your team and is a fantastic taker of fish both wild and stocked. To support my channel and enter the giveaways head to https://www.patreon.com/flickingfeathers and become a patron or support through paypal.me/flickingfeathers Materials list Hook: Kamasan B170 size 8-12 Thread: Fire orange or white Uni 8/0 Tail: Globrite no.7 & 8 brushed together (Orkney peach blend) Rib: Gold wire Body: Orkney peach flash dubbing (equal parts chopped globrite 7 & 8, Fl shell pink ice dub & UV shrimp pink ice dub) Body hackle: Peach or sunburst chinese cock Head: Spun white deer hair
Last Monday I took my buddy Hideto from the Tokyo flyfishing blog out to show him the ropes. He'd been carping before but like most he'd struggled and never really got in to it. Eventually I convinced him that carp were worth chasing and he asked to come along. I took him to a small river near my apartment, it doesn't have many big fish but it has a lot of fish so I was confident he'd get a fish or two. After a quick coffee and explanation about the river, flies and presentation we headed up to the water. It took Hide a little while to get to grips with the presentation and reading the fish, although identifying takers is going to take more than one session to pin down. Any way we eventually got him a small fish about 20 inches or so after which his confidence started to grow along side a healthy respect for the carp as a fly fishing target. As the day wore on he picked up a few fish finishing with 5 or 6 nice little commons. I didn't fish that hard as I
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