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Numerous insects that spend their existence on the fields or in the forests have often the opportunity to move close to the banks of the water courses, sometimes with the intention to quench or to collect the nectar from the flowers that grow around of the rivers. Their approach to the water can have however a unlucky epilogue, since an unexpected breath of wind, or a hazardous aerial manoeuvre, or also the urgent desire of drinking, can induce them to land abruptly on the surface of the river, becoming in this way the vulnerable target of the fish attacks. These terrestrials are so the occasional meal for all those trout, as well for grayling and dace, which learn to recognise them as a tasty prey.
The frequency by which this phenomenon takes place is not so sporadic and it does not surprise us that many fly tiers have elaborated lots of dressing for reproduce on a hook the shape of diptera, lepidoptera, of coleoptera, etc. Many of these artificials have contributed then to develop particular strategies for alluring the fish – we can just think to the daddy-long-legs for the "dapping" fishing on the lakes, or to the palmers, like the Bivisible, for the "beating" fishing on the rivers populated by daces.
Generally the terrestrials can be used with profit as an alternative to the traditional dry flies, especially when we suppose that our finned adversaries are accustomed to most common imitations of up-wings and sedges, but they are unable to identify the trick present into flies with strange or unusual shapes. Our preference can fall therefore on a Moscone, which can stimulate the curiosity of a trout or of dace with its combination of colours, but also with its appearance similar to a Musca domestica: a popular diptera that lives everywhere and that sometimes ends in the stomachs of the fish. In fact, in the beauty season, it is easy to observe these insects to fly in proximity of the water courses, looking for sugar and nectar on the fresh plants that grow along the river banks, with the result that some of them fall in the river and then are attacked from the fish. To assert that trout or dace can specialise themselves in a selective diet composed prevalently of houseflies is absurd; anyway these bugs are very attractive for the fish, maybe because they are rather appetising.
The frequency by which this phenomenon takes place is not so sporadic and it does not surprise us that many fly tiers have elaborated lots of dressing for reproduce on a hook the shape of diptera, lepidoptera, of coleoptera, etc. Many of these artificials have contributed then to develop particular strategies for alluring the fish – we can just think to the daddy-long-legs for the "dapping" fishing on the lakes, or to the palmers, like the Bivisible, for the "beating" fishing on the rivers populated by daces.
Generally the terrestrials can be used with profit as an alternative to the traditional dry flies, especially when we suppose that our finned adversaries are accustomed to most common imitations of up-wings and sedges, but they are unable to identify the trick present into flies with strange or unusual shapes. Our preference can fall therefore on a Moscone, which can stimulate the curiosity of a trout or of dace with its combination of colours, but also with its appearance similar to a Musca domestica: a popular diptera that lives everywhere and that sometimes ends in the stomachs of the fish. In fact, in the beauty season, it is easy to observe these insects to fly in proximity of the water courses, looking for sugar and nectar on the fresh plants that grow along the river banks, with the result that some of them fall in the river and then are attacked from the fish. To assert that trout or dace can specialise themselves in a selective diet composed prevalently of houseflies is absurd; anyway these bugs are very attractive for the fish, maybe because they are rather appetising.
INSTRUCTIONS
I start to prepare my Moscon by fixing the hook on the vice jay and tying on the black thread. Next, I wax a short stretch of thread and I apply to it a pinch of anthracite grey polypropylene, to make a compact dubbing. The dubbing is then used to form the fly body along the rear two-thirds of the hook shank
Cut off a small orange black-barred feather from a golden pheasant tippet, I tie in it by its tip, fixing it in front of abdomen and at twelve o'clock of the hook shank, ensuring its bright side faces the body
I clamp a small bulldog clip onto the fibres of two natural dark grey cul de canard feathers and of a long blue dun cock neck hackle (the three feathers should be arranged one on the top of the other). With a pair of very sharp scissors, I trim away the feathers fibres caught by the bulldog clip close to the point where they are attached to their stalks
I form a dubbing loop with the black thread and I insert in it the blades of the bulldog clip holding the cul de canard and the cock hackle fibres. I make a few turns of the dubbing spinner to increase the tension on the thread, then I slowly open up the bulldog clip whilst removing it from the thread loop. The thread will spin itself around the freed fibres to form a mixed rope of CdC and hackle
With the compacted dubbing, I form a gauzy thorax to the fly by winding it around the front third of the hook shank. Next, with the scissors, I reduce the length of all those cul de canard fibres that appear too long. I take now two long, broad hackles from a blue dun cock neck and I tie them in so they project in a vee, flat on each side of the body to represent the wings of the imitation. For reasons of stability on the water, the wings must extend backwards for a length equivalent to one and half times that of the hook shank
I take the golden pheasant tippet feather, I bring it over the thorax and I bind it just behind hook eye: this creates the fly’s thorax cover
Using a few turns of thread, I make the artificial’s head which is then finished with a whip-finish and with a small drop of clear varnish
The Moscone is ready to be used on our next fishing expedition: it can be connected to the leader as a fly for search fishing, or even as an extreme attempt to induce a rise from a very difficult fish that has become expert in tricks of angler who tackle him with traditional and predictable dry flies
MATERIALS LIST
HOOK: regular shank size 14 to 12
THREAD: black
BODY: dubbing of anthracite grey polypropylene
WINGS: tips of two blue dun cock neck hackles
THORAX: dubbing of natural dark grey cul de canard fibres mixed with blue dun cock hackle fibres
THORAX'S COVER: orange black barred golden pheasant tippet feather
THREAD: black
BODY: dubbing of anthracite grey polypropylene
WINGS: tips of two blue dun cock neck hackles
THORAX: dubbing of natural dark grey cul de canard fibres mixed with blue dun cock hackle fibres
THORAX'S COVER: orange black barred golden pheasant tippet feather
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