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DCAC Flytying Catalogue © DCAC 2020 Index Andy’s Olive Emerger Organza Cats Whisker Black Cruncher Grayling Nymph CDC Daddy Suspender Buzzer Corixa Roach Fry Green Diawl Bach Perch Fry Irish Bumble Mini Booby Magenta Hog Montana Nymph Pin Fry Red Arsed Snatcher Silver Cruncher Yellow Owl Buzzer Bibbio Wet Fly Agapatus Emerger Diawl Bach with Jungle Cock Black and Claret Shuggie Black and Orange Blob Booby Shuggie Red And Claret Booby Ladybower Booby Buzzer Small Pheasant Tail Nymph Silver Dabbler Melvin Octopus Black Buzzer Rabbit Organza Zonker Olive Damsel Muddler Klink and Dink Ladybower Buzzer DCAC Flytying Catalogue © DCAC 2020 A Toft Newton favourite first tied by Andy Hutson. A small amount of thin muscilin can be added to the antron to assist with floatation although this fly will float without it. Fished static on a floating line in reasonable conditions when there are a few fish showing, the fly represents a hatching olive. Can be tied with different coloured body and thorax to represent different fly species, black is a good alternative. Try to keep the body slim though, so it sinks into the surface film. Strike as you would with any dry fly, give the fish time to take properly. Watch the video from the link below. Tying The Olive Shuttlecock DCAC Flytying Catalogue © DCAC 2020 A great fish catcher, the Cruncher is a general imitation of many flies and can be be tied in any colour, olive, orange and claret are good examples so just change the colour to suit. Fished in teams of two or three, on a floating line with a slow figure of eight retrieve the Cruncher produces time after time when the fish are up in the water. This fly, will however, catch fish on any line, a popular method is to fish on a slow sink or intermediate, sandwiched between two Blobs or weighted fly on the point and an attractor on the bob, fish will take the Cruncher on the middle dropper time after time. The front hackle is Badger, soft hen, keep it small, Partridge hackle is a good pointer to the size of hackle you need and can obviously be used too, on the brown coloured versions. DCAC Flytying Catalogue © DCAC 2020 Autumn is the best time of year to fish the Daddy Long Legs of course, but in modern times this fly catches throughout the year either fished as a sunken lure or floating fly. Some versions even have weighted beads, here is a tying of the floating version. Tied with a detached deer hair body and a CDC looped wing this version floats as well as any other but has no hackle and so, sits lower in the water. The detached deer hair body can be substituted with good quality foam which is easier to do, make sure the looped CDC wing has air space underneath as this helps the fly to float a lot better. Fished static as a floating single fly on it’s own usually brings up a fish or two, sometimes fish will try to sink the fly before taking so leave a bit of time before trying to set the hook. DCAC Flytying Catalogue © DCAC 2020 The Corixa is a fly we have all seen in the margins, it needs an air bubble to survive under water and we often see them coming to the surface to gather that bubble before returning to the depths. This action is what the fish love and will readily take the Corixa whilst it rises and falls through the water. I tie a floating and a sinking version, in the floating version the pheasant tail thorax cover is substituted with a strip of foam to assist with floating the fly although you may have to apply a small amount of muscilin from time to time to keep the fly floating. It can work though by not greasing at all and just letting the fly sink slowly, this imitates perfectly the action of the natural. Fish on a floating line close to any marginal weed and inch along the bottom if you can. Keep a low profile so as not scare any fish that may be close into the bank. Watch the Corixa video from the link below. Corixa Video DCAC Flytying Catalogue © DCAC 2020 The Diawl Bach is a go to fly for a lot of anglers and, in it’s many colour guises catches lots of fish for many anglers. It can be tied in many colours and has probably been bastardised, as is the one above, from the original but still they all catch fish. The name Daiwl Bach is Welsh for Little Devil and, in all essence, that’s what it is, a fish catcher. Floating line tactics with a slow retrieve are best but this fly catches fish on any line, retrieved slowly or pulled fast, it doesn’t seem to matter at times. Simple to tie,you need some of these in your box in various colours, black with a green rib or red rib, orange with a green rib does well. The original fly had Peacock herl body, brown tail and beard hackle and a copper wire rib and these still work today. DCAC Flytying Catalogue © DCAC 2020 The Irish Bumble flies, a series of flies used in the big Irish Loughs to great effect and they also catch a lot of fish in the English reservoirs and, in smaller sizes, on the smaller still waters. Usually fished from the boat they are good bob flies and bring up the fish with monotonous regularity, leave the fly close to the surface at the end of the retrieve for a few seconds and, when fish take, this makes for exiting fishing. Tied in different colours including Claret, black, green and this olive one. The tying is not as complicated as it looks an, with right materials is relatively easy. Try to balance the hackle and hook size to the size of the water you intend to fish keeping the hackle smaller for smaller waters. The front hackle should be a softish hen hackle with only two to three wraps. DCAC Flytying Catalogue © DCAC 2020 Hogs, as they are called are a popular floating fly and catch plenty of fish when they are up in the water. Usually fished on a floating line, they are one of the best flies for pulling across the surface of the water with their inherent floating abilities. The Hog can be tied in many colour combinations, this one is magenta because of the colour of the body dubbing and I have included a red tag at the rear. You can, of course, also change the colour of the deer hair to suit but I have found that this makes little difference to the flies ability to catch. The hardest part in the tying is the deer hair, try to keep the deer hair on top of the hook and only tie in small bunches at a time, you should be looking at six or seven bunches on a size 10 hook. Before varnishing the head, use your dubbing comb to comb the dubbing up into the deer hair from both sides, you will be surprised at the difference this makes to the look of the fly. DCAC Flytying Catalogue © DCAC 2020 Introduced from the USA in the mid 1950’s, the Montana Nymph has had a few transformations and the one you see here is the modern version. Apparently the original was a representation of the Stone Fly, had a forward facing wing and was used in rivers in the USA. The nymph can be fished on any line although floaters and slow intermediates are favoured, you don’t need sinking lines as the fly you see here is weighted. Fairly easy to tie on the longer shank hooks but more difficult on the short shank hook you see here. Try to keep the lead wire weighting within the limits of the thorax or the fly will look wrong, use the smallest size chenille you can and try not to make the hackle too long, gape of hook is about right. DCAC Flytying Catalogue © DCAC 2020 In June and July most waters in the UK abound with pin fry and this fly tries to replicate that, it’s a very good fly and just “looks right” for the job. Fish on a floating or intermediate line with short little pulls around weed beds and other obstacles where you would expect small fry to congregate. An easy fly to tie, the white marabou gives it a bit of life when in the water, wind the tinsel over wet varnish and carefully apply UV resin or two to three coats of varnish to the body before completing the beard hackle. Take care not to varnish the marabou tail. DCAC Flytying Catalogue © DCAC 2020 A fairly modern fly, the Snatcher can be tied in a variety of colour combinations, the two most popular are the red arsed and the green arsed ones, so named because of the colour of the tag. Very popular on the bigger waters when boat fishing, the fly makes a great top dropper and works particularly well when pulled or hung in the surface at the end of each retrieve on a floating or intermediate line. Reasonably easy to tie as long as the material proportions are followed, the red or green tag should be varnished and the fly completed when the varnish has dried although, you could use UV or wind the tag over super glue to hasten the tying.

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