 A solution to the problem can be to tie a small Moscerino Fiammeggiante to
the leader, which has a relatively defined shape and appears vaguely similar
to an insect. These qualities can contribute to generating some doubt in the
fish, inducing it to quickly bite the fly just to check if it is an edible
meal. The result is that we may have a chance of hooking a really big grayling.
The Moscerino Fiammeggiante is one of the 88 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
Materials
List:
- Hooks: Mustad
mod. 80000 size 20 to 16 or Mustad Signature R30
- Thread: Fiery
Brown
- Body: Dubbing
of Fiery Brown polypropylene
- Ribbing: Fiery
Brown thread
- Collar: Natural
grey cul-de-canard fibres
Tying
Instructions: |
Step 1:
A fly extremely easy to build, the Moscerino Fiammeggiante is assembled
through simple tying steps, which require short time. The construction
can be faced without too many problems, also from those fly tiers
with little experience.
I start to prepare the fly by fixing the hook on the vice jay and tying
on a fiery brown thread. I do not cut off the thread surplus, because
I will use it successively for the ribbing. |
Photos
and fly by Luca Montanari |
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Step 2:
Now I wax a short stretch of the thread and I distribute a pinch of fiery
brown polypropylene on it, forming, with the fingers of a hand, a compact
dubbing, which I wrap around the four rear fifths of the hook shank in
order to create the fly body. |
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Step 3:
I make the ribbing by making wide windings around the body with the piece
of thread that is attached to the hook bend. |
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Step 4:
I strip off some small tufts of the longest fibres from both sides of a
pair of natural grey cul-de-canard feathers. |
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Step 5:
In order to form the collar, I tie in the cul-de-canard fibres around the
front fifth of the hook shank, taking care that the tips of the fibres
reach a little beyond the hook bend. |
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Step 6:
Next, I cut off the surplus of the cul-de-canard fibres and then I create
the fly head with some turns of the thread, which is then finished with
a whip-finish and with a small drop of clear varnish. |
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Step 7:
With a pair of sharp scissors, I make a cut along the posterior portion
of the collar, reducing the cul-de-canard fibres to a length a little
longer than the hook shank, completing in this way the building process
of the Moscerino Fiammeggiante. |
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FLY
OF THE MONTH 
