Many artificials that want to imitate a small chironomid pupa have arguable imitative qualities, due both to their shapes and to the improbable colours of the various parts of their body. Considering a classics buzzer of the British tradition – the abdomen of which is built with floss differently dyed and with the thorax realised with shining peacock herls – we can assert that its aspect has a very little alikeness with the common aquatic dipterous and for that we should be surprise that a trout can take it, exchanging it for a real insect. We do not have to forget, however, that a fish can attack a prey for reasons that have not a concrete relation with the necessity of food. The curiosity and the instinct as a predator, for example, are behavioural attitudes that contribute to the ways by the trout feed itself and many fish seem particularly sensitive to these two factors. But not only this.
The effectiveness of a fly is often due to its ability to generate phenomena of interpretation to the trout. In other words, an artificial that gives the vague idea to be similar to a tasty prey can entice the fish more easily than an exact imitation. All this is explicable with the greater propensity of the anglers to use often refine and particularly verisimilar artificials, which increase the trout selectivity and suspicion towards the more imitative flies.
This problem, however, can be reduced if the fish is tempt with an unusual, and for its unknown, fly, which is vaguely similar to an inviting mouthful and appears stimulating because of it brilliant colours. In such situations, the salmonid, observing the strange “bug”, can doubt about its edibility and this uncertainty can degenerate in a strong excitation, which sometimes ends in violent attack.
Projecting such speech to the case of the chironomid pupas, a trout that shows a evident reluctance to accept our sophisticated imitations composed with the cul de canard, or with other modern ingredients, can be captured using an “ancient” pattern of Buzzer: an artificial that can confuse the fish, giving it the idea to be similar to a young dipterous, but that in reality, if observed carefully, has very little analogies with the insect.
The Red Buzzer is an exponent of the Buzzer family that works quite well wherever we see large colonies of reddish chironomids. For its remarkable effectiveness, it can be used in many situations, including for “searching fishing”, tying it on the leader as dropper fly.
The effectiveness of a fly is often due to its ability to generate phenomena of interpretation to the trout. In other words, an artificial that gives the vague idea to be similar to a tasty prey can entice the fish more easily than an exact imitation. All this is explicable with the greater propensity of the anglers to use often refine and particularly verisimilar artificials, which increase the trout selectivity and suspicion towards the more imitative flies.
This problem, however, can be reduced if the fish is tempt with an unusual, and for its unknown, fly, which is vaguely similar to an inviting mouthful and appears stimulating because of it brilliant colours. In such situations, the salmonid, observing the strange “bug”, can doubt about its edibility and this uncertainty can degenerate in a strong excitation, which sometimes ends in violent attack.
Projecting such speech to the case of the chironomid pupas, a trout that shows a evident reluctance to accept our sophisticated imitations composed with the cul de canard, or with other modern ingredients, can be captured using an “ancient” pattern of Buzzer: an artificial that can confuse the fish, giving it the idea to be similar to a young dipterous, but that in reality, if observed carefully, has very little analogies with the insect.
The Red Buzzer is an exponent of the Buzzer family that works quite well wherever we see large colonies of reddish chironomids. For its remarkable effectiveness, it can be used in many situations, including for “searching fishing”, tying it on the leader as dropper fly.
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INSTRUCTIONS
I start the building process of the fly, inserting the hook into the vice jay and binding on its shank the black thread, which I use for tying in, over the bend, a tuft of fibres stripped off from a white cul de canard feather
On the fixing point of the tail, I stop the end of a piece of fine copper wire and the head of a red floss spool. Next, with the thread, I realise a thin under-body along the two rear thirds of the hook shank
Wrapping the red floss around the under-body, I create the uniform abdomen of the fly, which then I rib with wide turns of the fine copper wire
In front of the body, I tie in two herls cut off from a peacock tail feather and I use them for realising the thorax, passing repeatedly them around the front third of the hook shank
From the same cul de canard feather which supplied me the material for the tail, I strip off a new tuft of fibres and I fix it just behind the hook eye, placing it so it extends forwards and with an angle of 45° from the shank
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With some turns of thread around the branchial tuft, I make the head of the fly and then I whip finish it
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I distribute now a thin layer of glue on the head; therefore I reduce the length of the tail and of the branchial tuft with two clean cuts, making sure that the tail extends from the abdomen for a pair of millimetres, and the branchial tuft extends from the eye for nearly half centimetre (measures valid for a hook size 16). At this point the Red Buzzer can be inserted in the nymph box, ready to help me to allure a clever and selective trout that has a small experience in fact of all those old flies which are rarely used by the majority of anglers
MATERIALS LIST
HOOK: regular shank size 20 to 14
THREAD: black
TAIL: fibres of white cul de canard
ABDOMEN: red floss
RIBBING: fine copper wire
THORAX: herls from a peacock tail feather
BRANCHIAL TUFT: fibres of white cul de canard
THREAD: black
TAIL: fibres of white cul de canard
ABDOMEN: red floss
RIBBING: fine copper wire
THORAX: herls from a peacock tail feather
BRANCHIAL TUFT: fibres of white cul de canard
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