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The
skill of a fly fisherman is usually the result of many hours spent along the
riverside to cast his lines and at the tying table to build his artificial
imitations. The practice, in fact, forces us to face many problems on
watercourses and to find a solution for each of them, thus increasing our
knowledge in the fishing field. However, by restricting his horizon exclusively
to the practice the fly angler reduces the chances to increase his experience,
because the technical evolution is determined not only by regular exercise, but
also from the contacts with other fishermen and from the propensity we have to
read the pages of books, magazines and websites.
This aspect is very important in order to make progress in a so complex discipline like fly fishing: without an appropriate text is hard to acquire a minimum of notions of entomology and if you do not know the aquatic life is difficult to select the more appropriate imitations; in the same way, a casting technique, or a strategy to approach the fish, can be learned even alone, but with the teachings of any expert is learned first, avoiding errors which could be difficult to remove in the future.
Projecting this speech to the fly tying field, for building beautiful and effective imitations it is important not only to wind correctly a thread around a hook, but to consult quite frequently sources of information that deal with the topic. By knowing various tying techniques and be able to put them in practice while we give shape to the various imitations, we can realize a fly able to fool the more selective and experienced fish. In other words, thanks to the pages of some magazines, or of a good book, but even of a nice web site, we can understand how to tie many different imitations, maturing experience in techniques such as the Devaux, or the Reverse, or even the Parachute and filling in this way our boxes of flies useful in many situations.
Among the tying ways that we can adopt to prepare very effective flies, I consider really interesting that one which involves the use of two small feathers of cul de canard placed in the inverted position and fixed at "V" shape on the hook.
Developed by Andrew Ryan, this technique lets us to build an imitation of mayfly that appears ethereal and delicate and which is able to adhering to the water surface with the whole body, in a manner substantially similar to an insect. These characteristics help the fly to appear very attractive for fish used to traditional imitations and this let us face with success very difficult situations.
The Olive Clonanav CDC Dun is one of the patterns we can tie with the particular technique of Andrew Ryan. This fly wants to imitate a small Baetis rhodani or Ephemerella ignita at the dun stage: mayflies really popular on many waters and that hatch from the end of winter and for whole the summer.
This aspect is very important in order to make progress in a so complex discipline like fly fishing: without an appropriate text is hard to acquire a minimum of notions of entomology and if you do not know the aquatic life is difficult to select the more appropriate imitations; in the same way, a casting technique, or a strategy to approach the fish, can be learned even alone, but with the teachings of any expert is learned first, avoiding errors which could be difficult to remove in the future.
Projecting this speech to the fly tying field, for building beautiful and effective imitations it is important not only to wind correctly a thread around a hook, but to consult quite frequently sources of information that deal with the topic. By knowing various tying techniques and be able to put them in practice while we give shape to the various imitations, we can realize a fly able to fool the more selective and experienced fish. In other words, thanks to the pages of some magazines, or of a good book, but even of a nice web site, we can understand how to tie many different imitations, maturing experience in techniques such as the Devaux, or the Reverse, or even the Parachute and filling in this way our boxes of flies useful in many situations.
Among the tying ways that we can adopt to prepare very effective flies, I consider really interesting that one which involves the use of two small feathers of cul de canard placed in the inverted position and fixed at "V" shape on the hook.
Developed by Andrew Ryan, this technique lets us to build an imitation of mayfly that appears ethereal and delicate and which is able to adhering to the water surface with the whole body, in a manner substantially similar to an insect. These characteristics help the fly to appear very attractive for fish used to traditional imitations and this let us face with success very difficult situations.
The Olive Clonanav CDC Dun is one of the patterns we can tie with the particular technique of Andrew Ryan. This fly wants to imitate a small Baetis rhodani or Ephemerella ignita at the dun stage: mayflies really popular on many waters and that hatch from the end of winter and for whole the summer.
INSTRUCTIONS
I
start the building process of the Royal Wulff by fixing the hook into the vice
jay and tying in the black thread on the shank, which I use to bind, over the
bend, three fibers of a Coq de Leon hackles: these tails must have a length
approximately equivalent to the hook shank
I wax a short stretch of thread and I distribute over it a pinch of olive green
colored polypropylene mixed with a small amount of hare’s fur
I make a thin rope and wrap it along the three rear quarters of the hook shank
to create the abdomen
I select two natural grey cul de canard feathers, I cut off a short portion of
their base and I tie in over the front quarter of the hook shank, securing them
at “V” shape and upside down. The tips of the fibers must be pointed outwards
from the fly sides, in a way to imitate the mayfly legs and to offer a good
buoyancy structure. The wings and legs should have a length equivalent to the
hook shank
I treat a new stretch of thread with wax and apply over it a pinch of the same
hairy mixture used for the abdomen. I compact the dubbing rope and wrap it
between the wings and just behind the hook eye to make the thorax
With a few turns of thread I create the head, which is then finished with a
whip-finish
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The Clonanav Olive Dun CDC can be finished with a drop of clear varnish, which
will prevent the thread to untie itself
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MATERIALS LIST
HOOK:
regular shank size 16 to 14
THREAD: black
TAILS: Coq de Leon
ABDOMEN: olive green polypropylene mixed with hare’s fur
WINGS AND LEGS: natural grey cul de canard
THORAX: olive green polypropylene mixed with hare’s fur
THREAD: black
TAILS: Coq de Leon
ABDOMEN: olive green polypropylene mixed with hare’s fur
WINGS AND LEGS: natural grey cul de canard
THORAX: olive green polypropylene mixed with hare’s fur
