At past taping sessions I’ve been asked for the recipes and I’ve finally gotten around to writing them down. In general, I like a trolling fly to have some flash, color contrast, and a little fluorescent material somewhere. The beauty of this type of fly is that you can get creative and add or change a few things here and there. Feel free to improvise should you try to tie one and be sure to post pic’s of any fish you catch. Enjoy...
Some basics:
Hooks – Mustad 3906, size 4 in front, size 6 in the rear
Wire –Berkley Steelon nylon coated wire, 20lb test
Thread – Black Danville 210 denier to attach the hooks to the wire, 140 denier for the head; 210 in fluorescent colors for the rear head on some patterns
Bodies – either flat or braided tinsel
Beads – 6mm or 8mm craft beads, transparent but as dark as possible. This is critical, pale colors do not work as well.
Eyes - 1/32 fluorescent chartreuse WTP tape eyes
Bling Patterns:
Green:
Underwing – white bucktail
Overwing – white bucktail, gold crystal flash, green crystal flash, black crystal flash
Body – silver or gold tinsel
Tag – fluorescent chartreuse floss
Purple:
Overwing – tan portion of natural bucktail, copper crystal flash, fluorescent purple crystal flash, black crystal flash
Body – copper tinsel
Tag – fluorescent purple floss
Pink:
Overwing – tan portion of natural bucktail, copper crystal flash, fluorescent pink crystal flash, black crystal flash
Body – copper tinsel
Beads - unlike the other patterns these are glow pink rather than transparent
Blue:
Overwing – white bucktail, light blue crystal flash, fluorescent yellow crystal flash, dark blue bucktail
Body – silver or gold tinsel
Blue (CI variant):
Underwing – white bucktail
Overwing – pearl flashabou, wine crystal flash, blue flashabou
Body – silver tinsel
Thread - white
Orange:
Underwing – white bucktail
Overwing – orange bucktail, gold crystal flash, orange bucktail
Body –gold tinsel
Thread – fluorescent orange on rear
Yellow:
Throat – red calf tail
Overwing – fluorescent yellow crystal flash, tan portion from a yellow bucktail
Body –gold tinsel
Thread- red thread on rear hook
Red:
Underwing – white bucktail
Overwing – white bucktail, red flashabou, black crystal flash
Body – silver tinsel
Pearl (Grey smelt variant):
Underwing – white hackle
Overwing – white bucktail, fluorescent blue herring crystal flash, grey bucktail
Body – silver tinsel
Thread – red thread on rear hook
Tag – fluorescent red floss
Pearl (Rainbow Trout variant):
Overwing – white bucktail, pink fluorescent crystal flash, green crystal flash
Body – silver tinsel
Thread – Flourescent pink on rear hook
Tag – fluorescent pink thread
Teal:
Underwing – white bucktail
Overwing – white bucktail, fluorescent yellow crystal flash, flourescent teal bucktail, black bucktail
Body – silver tinsel
Tag – fluorescent yellow floss
