When the ice opens up on that little pond up the road, this will be the first pattern I’ll use to provoke it’s thawing bluegills into striking. When I put the streamer boxes away on my favorite trout stream, this will probably be the first subsurface patten I tie on. When I get to that secret smallie spot for the first time, and this fly is still secured to my 6wt’s hook keeper, I’ll probably leave it on, or replace it with it’s big brother. Even the common carp can’t help but go for this 30 second fly pattern
Simply put, the “Awesome” produces.
Material List:
Hook: Nymph Hook, size 12 shown
Tail: Angelina Fibers
Body: Angelina Fibers
Head: Bead
Tying Instructions:
- Place Gold Bead on hook
- Tie in tail
- Dub body
- Whip finish
Presentation Tips:
dead drift, swing, strip, or whateve else you can come up with
8 Responses
This is simplicity and elegance in it’s best form. This is the \kind of fly that catches all kinds of fish all kinds of the time….
Posted on March 12th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Thanks, Robin. Doesn’t get much more simple than this.
Posted on March 12th, 2009 at 10:10 am
That´s the way (aha,aha)…
Posted on March 15th, 2009 at 4:17 am
Finally got around to ordering some Angelina Fibers. I’d have thought them easy enough to obtain locally here in D/FW. not so much the case….
Posted on March 16th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
What do you think of them in person, Robin?
I don’t know of anyplace to get them locally where I live either. I learned of the material through a friend, Keith Barton, who writes the Singlebarbed blog- http://www.singlebarbed.com. One day I came home from work to find a huge box sitting on my doorstep from Keith. I wasn’t expecting anything and was kind of confused at what it might be. It didn’t tick, so I opened it up to find a near lifetime supply of several colors and a couple types of Angelina fibers, and a few other goodies, inside. If you go to his blog and search “angelina”, you’ll find all sorts of good, helpful info.
Posted on March 17th, 2009 at 8:57 am
I love the fly! I did a search online for Angelina Fibers and found like a million colors. If you don’t mind, which color of Angelina Fibers did you use for this particular fly?
Critter
Posted on March 17th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Thanks, Critter. I’ll check the package when I get home tonight and let you know.
Posted on March 18th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Excellent, Thanks!
Posted on March 21st, 2009 at 12:18 am
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