 FLY
OF THE MONTH
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CINNAMON
SEDGE
By Luca Montanari
Materials List:
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| Hooks: |
Mustad
Signature mod. R72 size 16 to 10 |
| Thread: |
Brown |
| Body: |
Fibres
from a pheasant tail feather |
| WINGS: |
Strips
of cinnamon feathers
from the wings of peacock or turkeys |
| HACKLE: |
Ginger
or light brown |
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 The
Phryganea varia is a large sedge that you can find
in many clean and well oxygenated rivers. Its hatching
takes place in the summer time and the highest
concentration of adult insects on the river
surface can usually be recorded at sunset,
when the sedges leave the diurnal shelters
in order to indulge in the ritual of their
reproduction. It is interesting to notice that
these trichopters make a sort of migration
along the river, flying upstream for hundreds
of meters before choosing a place to lay their
eggs. All this activity on the part of the
sedge causes strong excitation of the trout,
inducing them to attempt in acrobatic jumps
in order to intercept the preys that fly near
their hunting lies. From here, selecting an appropriate
imitation, like a Cinnamon Sedge, the “flier” also
has the opportunity to take those big fish which
are usually indifferent to Ephemeral imitations.
Tying
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Step 1:
I
start to prepare my sedge by fixing the hook
on the vice jay and tying on the brown thread,
which I use to bind, close to the bend, the
tip of a small light brown or ginger cock hackle
and a tuft of long fibres taken from a pheasant
tail feather.
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Photos and fly by Luca Montanari |
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Step 2:
I
wrap pheasant tail fibres around the two rear thirds of the
hook shank, realising in this way the body of the fly. |
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Step 3:
Now
I wind, in wide turns, the cock
hackle on the hook section covered by the peasant tail fibres, and I secure it
at the edge of the body.
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Step 4:
From
the peacock, or turkey, cinnamon feather, I cut two strips
of fibres approximately half a centimetre wide: the feather
must be previously varnished with a light layer of clear
glue. |
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Step 5:
On
the index finger of my left hand I place the two strips
of fibre, arranging them in a “V” shape. Next
I put the thumb of my left hand on the wings, and then
I place them along the hook. Then I tie them in front of
the body, passing the thread along the point at which the
two fibre segments intersect. At the end of this step,
the wings must have a roof shape and a length a little
longer than the hook shank
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Step 6:
I
tie in the two light brown or ginger cock hackles, placing
them on the fixing point of the wings. These hackle fibres
must be a little shorter than the hook shank. |
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Step 7:
With
the hackle pliers, I wind one
after the other the two cock hackles
along the front third of the hook,
stopping them just behind the eye.
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Step 8:
I
realise the head of my fly with some turns of the brown thread
and then I whip finish it. |
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Step 9:
The
Cinnamon Sedge is now ready to be used on my next fishing
expedition, ready to be attached to the leader as a fly
for search fishing, or when I see some brownish trichopters
jumping on the surface of the river.
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 The
Cinnamon Sedge is one of the 86 flies described in
Luca's recent book entitled "Flies - Mosche da pesca".
To get more information about it click on http://www.edolimpia.it/lev_1/pesca/top_pesca.htm
or send an e-mail to
libri@edolimpia.it) .
Although
it's written in Italian, it should be interesting
to many fly tiers due to the many excellent photographs.
Luca
Montanari
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