Salt Water Fly

Hi Tie

A Bait fish imitation

Materials

Tying Instructions

2) Tie in a small bunch of Polar Fleece at the same point above the hook. Repeat with a second bunch on top but slightly forward.

3) Tie in a few strands of flash on top.

4) Then Tie in a small bunch of chartreuse followed by green and finally grey. (Experiment with various colour combinations.)

5) Comb the body to shape then using superglue glue eyes in place.

6) Finally when super glue is dry colour the head area with marker pen and build up some epoxy over the front of the eye and head.

Tying Tip

Variation

Tom’s Gully Fly

Ties by Tom Gifford to fly fish gullies.

Materials

Tying Instructions

2) Form a nice body with thread (colour of choice) behind the eyes.

3) Super glue or cement the body and eyes. (Its a good idea to prepare a no. of bodies and let the glue dry before continuing)

4) Reverse the hook in the vice to ease application of the wing .

5) Take a small pinch of pearl Crystal Flash and tie in between eyes and hook eye.

6) Form a neat thread head with preferably red thread.

Winged Charlie

This is a variation of the Crazy Charlie.

Materials

Tying Instructions

2. Tie in a length of monofilament and two or three strands of flashabou or Gliss n Glo of a colour of your choice at the bend above the barb.

3. Wrap the flash forward to between eyes and secure. Wrap the monofilament over the flash in the same way and tie off.

4. Tie in the Calf Tail very sparse allowing it to extend past the bend by 5 to 10 mm. Tie in the flash on top of wing. Finally add the Hackle.

5. Form a neat head with the thread and epoxy.

Flashy Profile

A variation on the well known shad fly.

Materials

Tying Instructions

2) Tie in a few strands of Pearlescent on top.

3) Tie in the wing slightly ahead of the first bunch and form a neat taper.

4) Form an Epoxy head and stick on the eyes.

5) Turn continuously or place in a rotary drier to prevent the epoxy from running.

6) When dry trim to shape.

Whistler Variation

Primarily designed for the surf the whistler is also very effective for bass.

Materials

Tying Instructions

2) Using figure of 8 wraps tie in the dumbbell eye’s just behind the eye of the hook.

3) Tie in some stiff squirrel tail (or Buck tail) at the bend of the hook. This prevents the tail feathers from wrapping.

4) Tie in some flash above the squirrel tail.

5) Now tie in the hackle feathers 3 on either side of the hook. (They may be tied either inward or outward) Remember to leave some marabou on the feather as this creates a lot of movement.

6) Tie in a little more flash on either side of the tail feathers.

7) Working toward the eye of the hook tie in hackle feathers at the marabou end (do not remove all the marabou in the traditional way) and wrap forward in tight turns.

8) The hackle colours can be varied to get different effects. A red hackle just before the eyes simulates bleeding gills. Finish off with a darker hackle.

9) Whip finish and apply a little epoxy or head cement to the head and eyes.

10) A small amount of super glue can be applied to he hook shank before wrapping to make the fly more durable

Fly Variation

Evil Eye

Tied by Graeme Neary.

Materials

Tying Instructions

2. Take a good pinch of marabou for the tail approx length of the hook shank.

3. Add a few strands of either side of the tail.

4. Tie in a piece of chenille at the bend just above the barb.

5.Wind the chenille forward to eyes, run between the eyes and tie off.

6. Optional add a small marabou wing. This should extend to the hook point.

Take your evil eye and head for the nearest saltwater gully. If the fish are feeding results are virtually guaranteed.

Crazy Charlie

Although an easy fly to tie, it is often discounted and sits indefinitely in one’s fly box. Take them out, dust them off and even tie more.

Materials

Chrystal flash 2/4 strands

Tying Instructions

3. Wrap the flash forward to between eyes and secure. Wrap the monofilament over the flash in the same way and tie off.

4. Tie in the wing allowing it to extend past the bend by 5 to 10 mm. Tie in the flash on top of wing.

This recipe is for a standard / traditional type Charlie. When tying these, your only limitation is your imagination.

Lefty’s Deceiver

Lefty Cray originally tied this fly and it’s more a style of tying than a particular pattern.

This fly can be tied to imitate just about any small fish and if fished slowly it can also resemble a squid. It is an internationally recognized fish catcher both off shore and for land based fly fishers.

South African fly fishermen hold it in high esteem for both fresh water species such as Tiger Fish and countless salt-water species. For me this fly has resulted in my biggest Shad as well as Kingie.

If there are fish around and you just can’t seem to connect, try a Deceiver. It’s also a good low light or dirty water fly because it pushes a lot of Water.

Materials

Tying Instructions

4. Cut the buck tail at a taper to build up head and stack next layer The top layers should extend to the middle of the saddle hackle and on the under be the length of the shank.

5.Flash can be tied in on the under side to create belly shine or red hackle fibre to give the impression of the Gills

6. Six strand of Peacock herl on top can add a touch of class

7. Nail polish can be used to colour the head before applying Epoxy.

8.Doll eyes can be stuck on behind the head or stick on eyes can be stuck on the head itself.

Salty Bugger

A very simple and easy fly to tie, but very effective. This fly has already landed over 20 species (salt) for Hoosen.

Materials

Tying Instructions

Tie in generous bunch of marabou – length of shank. Wind down shank to behind bend and back again.

Tie in strand of krystal flash either side of tail.

Tie in dubbing brush / chinille, wind evenly up to bead and tie off. Pick out body. Do not taper as in nymph.

Tips:

• Aviod thin profile
• Avoid tapering
• Add several turns of lead wire
• Above colours are optional

Here is a list of some of the species that Hoosen has caught with this fly:

Torpedo scad, springer, queen fish, kingfish (various), gurnard, shad, salad fish, garrick, garfish, pinkie, wave garrick, karanteen, blacktail, moonie, flagtail, threadfin mullet, thorn fish, perch, kob, sand steenbras, wrasse, kawa kawa, 5 species in the maldives

Mylar Sprat

This fly is fished with a floating line in rip currents in surf, bays or estuaries.

Materials

Tying Instructions

Wrap hook shank from eyes to tail with flash or sparkle dubbing.

Place the thread in line with barb. Cut a piece of Mylar tube twice the length of the hook. Fold in half and pierce with a bodkin in the center of the fold.

Now push the point of the bodkin through the eye of the hook from the top and by applying pressure on the forward section of Mylar slip the Mylar over the eye of the hook.

Remove bodkin and stroke the Mylar over the top and bottom of the eyes and secure with a few wraps of thread at the barb.

Tip: Brush some superglue onto the thread before taking the last few turns and then tie off.

Using the bodkin stroke out the strands behind the barb to form a flash collar around the tail.