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The sunset hours of a warm summer evening generally represent the magical moment for many fly anglers, especially for those who use in prevalence the floating imitations. The lowering of the air temperature induces, in fact, a myriad of bugs to leave the places of diurnal rest and to begin the rituals of their wedding and the deposition of their eggs. A phase, this, in which Ephemeras, Trichopteras and Plecopteras assemble together in large groups on the banks on or the surface of the river, beginning those dances that will cause the excitation of the trout, but also of the grayling, and that induce them to rise for catching the small animals which lie on the surface. It happens so to assist to an entire river that "boils" everywhere, and we can notice sometimes that the fish more starve can make their rises to an unrestrainable rhythm.
To catch similar adversaries, however, we must involve ourselves in a quite demanding job, at least because the trout, despite the scarce visibility for approximating of the obscurity and the abundance of food, do not seem to reduce their suspiciousness or the attention in choosing the single preys. Indeed, the situation in which the fish shows to be more selective is often that one which take place in the darker hours of the day and that frequently determines the defeat of the angler, incapable to identify which insect is really interesting the trout and to choose so an appropriate imitation.
In those circumstances, considering that quite often are the ephemeras to allure the fish, and in particular the insects that are floating on the surface at the stage of spinner, the fisherman can put his own confidence in a classic, and with proved effectiveness, fly, such as the Lunn' s Particular. This fly was born around 1917 in England and became one of the best artificials for fishing on river Test. Thanks to its ability to reproduce the shape and the particular colour shadings of the Ephemerella ignita and of some species of Baetis (Ephemeras that become reddish when they cross the last phase of their existence), it finds many situation of use, helping us, in some cases, to win the selectivity of the bigger and shrewder trout we can see into the river during a summer evening.
To catch similar adversaries, however, we must involve ourselves in a quite demanding job, at least because the trout, despite the scarce visibility for approximating of the obscurity and the abundance of food, do not seem to reduce their suspiciousness or the attention in choosing the single preys. Indeed, the situation in which the fish shows to be more selective is often that one which take place in the darker hours of the day and that frequently determines the defeat of the angler, incapable to identify which insect is really interesting the trout and to choose so an appropriate imitation.
In those circumstances, considering that quite often are the ephemeras to allure the fish, and in particular the insects that are floating on the surface at the stage of spinner, the fisherman can put his own confidence in a classic, and with proved effectiveness, fly, such as the Lunn' s Particular. This fly was born around 1917 in England and became one of the best artificials for fishing on river Test. Thanks to its ability to reproduce the shape and the particular colour shadings of the Ephemerella ignita and of some species of Baetis (Ephemeras that become reddish when they cross the last phase of their existence), it finds many situation of use, helping us, in some cases, to win the selectivity of the bigger and shrewder trout we can see into the river during a summer evening.
INSTRUCTIONS
I face the first step of the building process of the Lunn's Particular by fixing the hook into the vice jay and tying in on its shank the red thread, which I use for nailing, over the bend, a tuft of fibres stripped off from a large natural red cock hackle. The tails so created must have a length approximately equivalent to the hook shank
Removing all the fibres that cover the same hackle that supplied me the material for the tails, I gain a clean stem for the creation of the body
I place the lower extremity of the hackle stem over the two rear thirds of the hook shank and I stop it with tightened passages of thread
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Wrapping the stem along the hook portion covered by the red thread, I realise now the abdomen of my imitation
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From a blue dun cock neck, I choose the tips of two wide hackles and I place them over the middle section of the hook interposed between the eye and the body, giving them a vee shape with crossed turns of thread. These wings must be long nearly the double of the abdomen. Next, I select, from a natural red cock neck, two hackles that have the fibres as long as the hook shank and I tie them in front of the body
With the apposite pliers, I wrap one after the other the two hackles around the front part of the hook, passing them behind and in front of the wing structure, so to create a fluffy collar
Next I cut off the surplus of the hackles and I create the fly head with some turns of the red thread, which is then finished with a whip-finish
A light layer of glue uniformly distributed over the head will prevent to the thread to untie itself, increasing the resistance of the Lunn’s Particular
My imitation can be now introduced in the fly box, ready for being used during the evening of a summer day, when I see on the river surface a good swarm of reddish Ephemeras
MATERIALS LIST
HOOK: regular shank size16 to 14
THREAD: red
TAILS: fibres of a natural red cock hackle
BODY: stem of a natural red cock hackle
WINGS: the tips of two blue dun cock hackles
HACKLE: natural red cock hackle
THREAD: red
TAILS: fibres of a natural red cock hackle
BODY: stem of a natural red cock hackle
WINGS: the tips of two blue dun cock hackles
HACKLE: natural red cock hackle
