YELLOW
MICRO GOLD HEAD
By Luca Montanari
In
the small reservoirs, the trout have often
the opportunity to feed on chironomid, attacking
insects in the pupa stage. In order to allure
such fish, the "fliers" generally
use very imitative artificials. When hunting
for minuscule prey, the rainbow trout, in particular,
can be extremely selective. However, a valid
strategy to induce them to attack the fly is
to tie a Yellow Micro Gold Head on the leader,
offering it to the trout in a static way, making
it fall slowly to the lake bottom, or using
a more active method by retrieving the line
quite fast.
Except for its capacity to reflect the sunlight, this fly has few imitative
qualities. However, what is likely to provoke the fish to an instinctive
reaction of attack is the way its delicate fibres vibrates when it swims
and its small-and-vulnerable prey appearance. For these reasons, the Yellow
Micro Gold Head should always be present inside the boxes of those anglers
that regularly fish in the reservoirs.
- (The
Yellow Micro Gold Head 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).
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Materials List: |
Hooks: |
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Thread: |
Black |
Head: |
a
small gold plastic bead |
Ballast: |
fine
lead wire |
Body: |
yellow
floss |
Ribbing: |
black
thread |
Wings and Collar: |
natural
red cock neck hackle |
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Step
1:
I
start the tying process of a Yellow Micro Gold Head
introducing a small plastic gold bead on the hook
shank, which is then brought close to the hook eye.
Next I clamp the hook into the vice jay and in order
to realise the ballast structure of the fly, I wrap
a piece of fine lead wire along the rear half of
the shank. |
Photos
and fly by Luca Montanari
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