We have received a lot of good feedback from people who have order and fished our products. This is a great deal, and an excellent way to either get started Euro Nymphing, or up your game with these great products. We only have a few Fast Packs left, so if you are interested, don’t delay! Order today!

It’s March and the Blue Winged Olives are starting to hatch here in Utah. Other mayflies are soon to come as this year starts to warm up. Lickety Split is a split case nymph that imitates the early stage of an emerging mayfly. Often times the soft adult is trapped and drowned inside the exuviae as it attempts to hatch into its winged terrestrial form. Other times these nymphs are freely drifting down stream as they begin to emerge from nymph to adult. In both cases the natural insect can be represented by the Lickety Split. The black bodied variation that I tie in the video is one of my go to attractor nymphs year round. Mayflies are present in most streams and rivers and this fly is very often the ticket to success. Other times when fish are being more selective for BWO nymphs/emergers, or PMD’s I fish one of the Lickety split variations found below.

On another exciting note, this is one of my first flies that is being picked up by Rainy’s Flies to be commercially produced and sold to fly shops around the world. It will be available in 2013, but until then you will have to tie them up yourselves if you are to fish them! Enjoy and go give it a tie!

Supplies are limited so order soon!

]]> http://flytying123.com/sale-euro-nymphing-fast-pack/02/18/2012/feed/ 0 http://flytying123.com/european-nymphing-the-logan-river/02/09/2012/ http://flytying123.com/european-nymphing-the-logan-river/02/09/2012/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:19:49 +0000 dgtying http://flytying123.com/?p=1667 It may be the month of February and typical predictions would call for slow fishing this time of year. However, this has not been a typical year. With air temps reaching 40 degrees almost everyday for the past few weeks, this has been an exceptionally warm winter. Water temps on various rivers surrounding me have been between 38 and 42 degrees which has proven favorable winter temperatures for trout. Here is a video from last week where my friend Brad and I fished one of our local streams, the Logan River.

This Saturday I will be giving a free fly tying demo at our local fly shop here in Logan Utah. I will be touching on attractor nymphs, including Egan’s Frenchie, Iron Lotus, and a few of  my favorite original patterns.  I’m planning on finding time to talk about the Provo River, and effective patterns I use while guiding.  For me it is tough to talk about attractor nymphs and not include European style nymphing,  so I’m sure I will throw that into the loop as well (since it is my favorite fly fishing topic to talk about).  It starts at 10:00 AM this Saturday,  so if you are in the area, feel free to stop in.

Thanks,

Gilbert

Here in Utah, winter finally decided to show up, along with some storms.  Its been extremely cold and windy as of late.  Even if I consider myself a hardcore fly fisherman, there are still days when its time to leave those waders hanging up in the garage and sit down at your vise.  With that said, January is a great month to fill up the spaces in your fly boxes.  Its also a great time to work on some new patterns.  If you have plenty of your confident patterns tied up and ready to fish, you can spend some time tying up some patterns that you have been thinking about tying, but never had time to tie them.

Taking advantage of this cold month to catch up 0n your tying, you won’t have to be always trying to catch up the rest of the year when you are fishing more.

If you love to fly fish, but don’t tie flies yet, this is a fabulous month to get started.  We have plenty of simple, yet effective patterns on our website that will get you started in the right direction, and still catch plenty of fish.

Don’t waste this month away!  Get out on the river when its possible, and get those flies tied up now so you can spend more time on the water when its nice and warm!!!!

This is the first fly in which will be a series of flies that you will find in our European nymphing fly boxes. We will explain which hook and tungsten bead sizes we use.

I wanted to start with the Dragon Warrior for a few reasons: it’s one of our favorites, it catches fish like crazy, and because I just watched Kung fu Panda 2 just the other day. This fly was originally created to match the color combination of Po (flabby panda!). We have been fishing it for about a couple years now and it has produced fish in every river that we have fished it. It is very effective in french style nymphing in the smaller sizes(16 and 18).

Here are the sizes that we carry with us to every river:
Size 16 with a 3/32(2.5mm) tungsten bead
Size 18 with a 5/64(2.0mm) tungsten bead

You could try some other larger or smaller sizes but these two sizes have been perfect for us. Check out our fly tying tutorial of the Dragon Warrior to learn how to tie it.  You wont be sorry.  Tie it up in the two sizes we mentioned and make sure you have plenty of them.

I also make sure I have plenty of Rainbow Warriors.  This is the same fly but with a pearl tinsel as the abdomen instead of a black holographic tinsel.  I carry these in the same sizes I mentioned above for the Dragon Warrior.  Refer to our video of the Rainbow Warrior for additional tying instructions.

Gilbert & Derek

Here is another Prince variation for you.  This pattern came about by using proven patterns, like the prince nymph, and using some different materials to make it a little different.  This pattern has worked well in the french style euro nymphing when some baetis are hatching in a size 16.  It has been a very effective pattern year round and I know you won’t be disappointed if you tie it up!