Sunday, June 19, 2016

New Olive Spinner pattern

For the past few weeks the Drunella cornuta spinners have been falling every night starting about 6:30 PM, the rise to them has been very good maybe not every night but good with plenty of very good fish up. I have been using a pattern that I tied years ago and have had very good success with but it just is not what I have been seeking, so to the tying bench I went. I used a wing material that I got from Russ Bowersox years ago, it is a Zelon type material that came from Megee carpet in Bloomsburg, PA, he still has some but the cost maybe high after this? The material has a very good off color that matches the wings of cornuta spinners and can be tied sparsely, it resembles Zelon but much stiffer. I tie it in spent winged and lash it down well and glue it with super glue at this stage, I always tie the wings in first to make sure the porportutions are correct and it also makes it very easy to glue it well, the super glue is very important because this material is very dense and it is hard to get it tied in to prevent it slipping when you get this first fish! I use microfibbits for tails (2) dark dun in color and spread wide but not more than 1x hook shake length. The body is Vevus body quill in olive built up well, these guys have a hump in their bodies at the rear wing and it is very apparent when you look at one. I use dark olive mole fur spun on olive thread to dub around the wings in a figure eight pattern then a bit more dubbing ahead of the wings. I then use Loon flow UV cure resin on the body and cure it with a strong UV light, it adds depth and a enhanced look to the body of the fly. I use Tiemco #101 or #921 size #16 for the pattern, tried some 921 #14 tied short but the fish did not like them so I'm sticking with 16's, I also tied a few with one wing tied at a rear facing angle and took fish. This week the Penns Creek tarpon were out in force and to get to the good fish you had to catch the little guys and give them flying lessons in order to get to the good trout, took a few nice guys and then noticed a really good one that I worked on for about 30 min's and took the fly away from him before he had a chance to turn downward, I just was on a razor edge because this guy is a really good one! I could see him well and did notice that more than a few times he took something under the surface because he never came near the surface and he opened his moth or turned in a fast motion - note tie some weighted spinners in the same manner that we have done for the Trico's or tie a small wighted pheasant tail as a dropper for this guy. This hatch is not heavy every night but it gets enough fish up to keep you busy, just get the dam chubs out of the way, give them flying lessons.
  Attached is a typical brown that has a scar from the Green Drake hatch but he was eating olives well.

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