When it comes to versatile flies, the Chubby Chernobyl takes the cake. This fly can be fished to imitate a myriad of patterns including ants, hoppers, and stoneflies.
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What is a Chernobyl Ant?
In 1990, when Alan Woolley was asked what he called this fly, he is said to have responded, “It doesn’t need a fancy name, it’s just a damn ant.” Mark Bennion replied, “But it’s an f-ing Chernobyl Ant!” Fish this unsinkable fly as a grasshopper, beetle, or just about any other kind of terrestrial.
What does a chubby Chernobyl imitate?
The Chubby Chernobyl is a great attractor pattern that can be used to “match the hatch” to imitate Golden Stoneflies, hoppers or Salmon flies depending on size, shape, and color. If you enjoy fishing this pattern, you will love fishing an Amy’s Ant as well.
How do you tie a Chernobyl fly?
What is a chubby fly?
What is a stimulator in fly fishing?
The Story. The Stimulator dry fly is a go-to attractor dry fly, particularly when you’re dry fly fishing during a big stone fly hatch or salmon fly hatch. This dry fly sits up high in the water, even in faster water.
What hooks for Chubby Chernobyl?
Hook: 3X-long nymph hook (here, a Dai-Riki #710), size 8. Thread: Olive green, 6/0 or 140 denier.
How do you tie a chubby fly?
What does a red zebra midge imitate?
In short, a Zebra Midge is a fly pattern used to imitate both the pupal and nymphal stages of a wide variety of aquatic-born insects. The Zebra Midge features a tapered body, ribbed abdomen, and a beadhead, making it a versatile and effective fly pattern for all sizes and species of trout.
What is a perdigon nymph?
The Perdigon nymph is a spanish fly pattern designed to get down quickly in fast water, and is responsible for a couple of Spanish world championships. They feature a short slender body with a few pheasant tail fibers and a small hot spot behind a tungsten bead.
What is a PMD fly fishing?
Pale Morning Duns or PMDs provide some of the finest dry fly action of the summer. They are classified as crawler nymphs. Nymphs, emergers, cripples, duns, and spinners are very important to catch the most selective trout. Spinners vary according to sex.
How do you tie a bionic ant?
What is a San Juan worm?
A San Juan Worm is a fly pattern designed to imitate an aquatic worm (or annelid). Constructed of three materials–a hook, thread, and chenille–San Juan Worms are known for their simplicity, durability, and versatility, as they can be fished year-round, and in nearly any body of water.
How do you tie a purple haze fly?
How do you tie Copper John?
What does a Stimulator imitate?
Originally tied to imitate large stoneflies, the Stimulator is also useful to imitate adult caddis, grasshoppers and large mayflies.
How do you tie a Stimulator?
What does the renegade fly imitate?
The Renegade Dry is an attractor pattern that has been around since the late 1920’s and works great in smaller sizes to imitate a mating ball of midges, or as a searching pattern in the larger sizes. When tying this fly keep in mind that the body is split up into 3 main sections; Two sections of hackle and one of herl.
How do you tie a Frenchie fly?
How do you tie a prince nymph?
What does a Copper John fly imitate?
What does the Copper John Nymph imitate? The Copper John Nymph imitates Mayflies and Stoneflies. If you are a fly angler, you know that trout are fans of these little bugs, and eat them through the Spring, Summer and Fall, especially during the hatch.
What do Prince nymphs imitate?
The Beadhead Prince Nymph most accurately imitates a stonefly or a mayfly nymph but can imitate a variety of other insects depending on the size, color and river that you are fishing.
Do trout eat midges?
Midges are closely related to mosquitoes and look like them, but they don’t bite. More importantly, they make up a huge percentage of a trout’s diet. This is for a few reasons. Midges are pretty universal, being found in large numbers in many bodies of water.
Do perdigon flies work?
There’s not much to a Perdigon, and it’s not what you expect in a fly pattern. But Perdigons are amongst the most effective flies the Missoulian Angler Fly Shop sells. They work on all Missoula river, The Clark Fork River, Blackfoot River, Bitterroot River and Rock Creek, as well as all the tributaries and lakes!
How do you fish perdigon nymphs?
