Kasserermaur - treasurers ant
Hi,
I just had a brilliant weekend tying flies at Villmarksliv in Hamar. I was invited to be at the stand of the Hedmarks Flyfishing club. Very, very nice people. I felt quite humbled tying next to such skilled people like Terje and having Vidar Steimler right behind me making bamboo rods. Mine is on the way and I cant wait to have a real Steimler rod. Might take a while though. These things donôt fall from the plastic tree.
The big thing in the waters around Oslo is "ants". I have been thinking about this for the last few month since I heard so much about it. However, the existing patterns did not exactly fit my taste. I remembered what my pal Eric from Reno kept mentioning about Ralph Cutters perfect ant. A brilliant design in his own right, but me and the clubs Kasserer wanted legs over hackle. We agreed that instinct driven creatures do react on such features / triggers.
So here you go ââ¬â the Kasserermaur (maur = ant) was born. It was a bit hard to find black deer hair, but we were lucky and found some at a stand around the corner http://www.foxtail.no/ had some.
[img:59acaf8db4]http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs485.ash1/26545_1240221773...
Hook: Mustad R30
Thread: Gordon Griffiths 14/0
upper body: deer hair
underbody: ice dub
legs: deer hair
Notes: fly sinks very slowly when untreated and stays in the film when treated.
Looks a million bucks to me ... and is rather simple to tie.
Cheers,
Thomas
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nice looking fly t.z. simple
nice looking fly t.z. simple for you maybe :) but I think I will give it a shot
nice looking fly t.z. simple
[quote:e3adecc2ed="Glenn Parkin"]nice looking fly t.z. simple for you maybe :) but I think I will give it a shot[/quote:e3adecc2ed]
Hereôs how you do it - in case you wonder - after laying a thread base tie in a small bunch of deer hair by the eye and cover with thread going backwards to the hook bend at about opposite to the barbe point. Form a ball shape body segment with dubbing and fold the deer hair forwards. Secure with 2 or 3 wraps, fold 3 or 4 hair fibres backwards and keep tying the rest of deer hair forward by covering with thread. Repeat the process - dubbing and folding over - with just less dubbing so you get a smaller segment. Check some Ant pics or the real things in your area.They vary in proportions. Whip finish under the deer hair so a bunch extends over the hook eye. The rest is trimming with scissors and crushing the legs a bit.
That is a very interesting
That is a very interesting ANT. I think they will do nicely in my lake box... :D
PT/TB