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When I decide to approach a river in searching fishing using the nymphs, as a rule I prefer to start to make my first casts with a Gold Head. The alluring qualities of this artificial are probably higher than any other fly we can find on the market and very few fish can resist to the fashion of a Gold Head that is swimming in front of their snout. The only limit that has this kind of nymph is represented by the facility which trout and grayling are able to recognise it, once they have had the misfortune to test its real consistency. From here, fishing in places very crowded of “fliers”, especially on river at catch and release regulation, it is important to understand quite soon if the fish can deceived by a fly with a golden ball on its head.
Many are the models of Gold Head built by the fly tiers and the differences between them can represented by the position of the small metallic ball on the hook shank, or by the variety or colours of the materials used for their building. A dressing that I consider very interesting for its effectiveness in catching rainbow trout on the reservoirs, is that one of the Black Gold Head: a fly that has the abdomen made with the black seal fur and the thorax with a mix of deer and hare fur.
Using the Black Gold Head on the reservoirs, we can load our rod with a floating line armed with a long leader, that ends with a very fine tip, in order to help the nymph to sink quickly. Our strategy of fishing can consist in making a long cast and then retrieving the line quite fast, making some stops, so to let the fly to move in an up and down way: this makes it to appear very attractive to the fish.
Many are the models of Gold Head built by the fly tiers and the differences between them can represented by the position of the small metallic ball on the hook shank, or by the variety or colours of the materials used for their building. A dressing that I consider very interesting for its effectiveness in catching rainbow trout on the reservoirs, is that one of the Black Gold Head: a fly that has the abdomen made with the black seal fur and the thorax with a mix of deer and hare fur.
Using the Black Gold Head on the reservoirs, we can load our rod with a floating line armed with a long leader, that ends with a very fine tip, in order to help the nymph to sink quickly. Our strategy of fishing can consist in making a long cast and then retrieving the line quite fast, making some stops, so to let the fly to move in an up and down way: this makes it to appear very attractive to the fish.
INSTRUCTIONS
The first step of the building process of a Black Gold Head involves us in the introduction of a small metallic golden ball on the hook shank, which is then brought close to the hook eye. This little sphere must be of dimensions appropriated to the hook we are using, in order to give a proportionate shape to the fly
We mount the hook in the vice jay and we tie in, with the black thread, a short piece of fine oval silver tinsel, fixing it close to the bend of the hook
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We wax a stretch of thread and we apply to it a pinch of black seal fur (or substitute), to make a compact dubbing. The dubbing is then used to form the fly abdomen along the rear half of the hook shank
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We wind open turns of the fine tinsel over the body, to form the ribbing of the nymph
We wax now a new stretch of thread and we make a second dubbing, using this time a mix of deer and hare fur
We make compact the dubbing and then we repeatedly pass it around the hook section interposed between the abdomen and small golden ball, creating a gauzy thorax
The fly can be now finished with a whip-finish behind the small golden sphere
We can complete our Black Gold-Head by applying a drop of clear varnish around the rear part of the small ball, so that it reach the thread knots and renders all the fly more durable
MATERIALS LIST
HOOK: regular shank (or specific for Gold Head fly) size 16 to 12
HEAD: a small metallic golden ball
THREAD: black
ABDOMEN: black seal fur (or substitute)
RIBBING: fine oval silver tinsel
THORAX: deer hair
HEAD: a small metallic golden ball
THREAD: black
ABDOMEN: black seal fur (or substitute)
RIBBING: fine oval silver tinsel
THORAX: deer hair
