Sometimes you really have to go down deep! Or is it not always important to present the fly where the fish resides? The last few years fishing with heavy weighted flies has opened my mind a lot, I think we often fish our flies to shallow in deeper water, especially when the fish are not active. If you want to try the slightly different fly fishing of using live sonars and casting to fish you will see on the sonar screen the importance of getting that fly down deep quickly is critical to success. Whatever your target or technique, don’t be afraid of heavily weighted flies, they cast amazingly well. and catch even better.
Materials used:
- Hook: Ahrex TP650 26 Degree Bent Streamer #2/0-4/0
- Glue: Zap a gap brush on, Gulff Thinman and Classic
- Thread: Power tread 100D – White Eyes: Stick-On Eyes 7,1 mm – Pearl
- Tail: Paolo Pacchiarini’s Dragon Tail in XL – Silver, Fluorocarbon 0,5-0,6mm, 2 mm bead – Orange, fastach size 0 Weight: 2–5-gram split shot.
- Tail & Wing: Bucktail – White, Bauer’s Premium Nayat – White and Burnt Smurf blue, Flashabou Magnum – Mirage opal. Polarflash – Mirage opal, Lateral scale small Mirage opal
- Head: Titan dubbing – Baitfish Blend