The Phryganea varia is a large sedge diffused in many clean and well oxygenated rivers. Its hatching takes place in the summer time and the highest concentration of adult insects on the water surface can be usually recorded at the sunset, when the sedges leave the diurnal shelters for giving the way to the ritual of their reproduction. It is interesting to notice that these trichopters make a sort of migration a long the river, flying upstream for hundred of meters before choosing a place where to lay the eggs. All this movement of sedge causes the strong excitation of the trout, inducing them to attempt in acrobatic jumps in order intercepting the preys that fly near their hunting lies. From here, selecting an appropriated imitation, like a Cinnamon Sedge, the “flier” has the opportunity to induce to take also those big fish which usually assume a diffident behaviour towards the imitations with the aspect of Ephemeral.
The Cinnamon Sedge is one of the 88 flies described in my book titled “Flies – Mosche da pesca”.
The Cinnamon Sedge is one of the 88 flies described in my book titled “Flies – Mosche da pesca”.
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INSTRUCTIONS
I start to prepare my sedge by fixing the hook on the vice jay and tying on the brown thread, which I use to bind, close to the bend, the tip of a small light brown or ginger cock hackle and a tuft of long fibres taken from a pheasant tail feather
I wrap pheasant tail fibres around the two rear third of the hook shank, realising in this way the body of the fly
Now I wind in wide turns the cock hackle on the hook section covered by the peasant tail fibres and I secure it at the edge of the body
From the peacock, or turkey, cinnamon feather, I cut two strips of fibres wide approximately half centimetre: the feather must be previously varnished with a light layer of clear glue
I place on the index finger of my left hand the two strips of fibres, arranging them to a “V” shape. Next I put the thumb of my left hand on the wings and then I approach them to the hook. Then I tie them in front the body, passing the thread along the point in which the two fibres segments they are intersected. At the end of this step, the wings must have a roof shape and a length a little longer than the hook shank
I tie in the two light brown or ginger cock hackles, placing them on the fixing point of the wings. These hackles must have the fibres a little shorter than the hook shank
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With the hackle pliers, I wind one after the other the
two cock hackles along the front third of the hook, stopping them just
behind the eye
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We realise the head of my fly with some turns of the brown thread and then we whip finish it
The Cinnamon Sedge is now ready to be used on my next fishing expedition, ready to be attached to the leader as a fly for search fishing, or when I see some brownish trichopters jumping on the water surface
MATERIALS LIST
HOOK: long shank size 16 to 10
THREAD: brown
BODY: fibres form a pheasant tail feather
BODY HACKLE: ginger or light brown
WINGS: strips of cinnamon feathers from the wings of peacock or turkey
HACKLE: ginger or light brown
THREAD: brown
BODY: fibres form a pheasant tail feather
BODY HACKLE: ginger or light brown
WINGS: strips of cinnamon feathers from the wings of peacock or turkey
HACKLE: ginger or light brown
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