Cabin fever

Getting the itch to be out again. Been tying a few. I am a rookie at the dry fly game – how does this #20 trico look?

Tim

Good start. I’d make the wings a bit smaller though and go with a blck, charcoal gray, or olive body for tricos. Poly-propeline yarn in dun or white, as well as the shiny material wedding gowns veils are made from work great for flat spinner wings. Otherwise, tie the wings normal, say in a dun style and trim the bottom flat. I use grizzly colored dun typically for the wings on my tricos.

Seasonally speaking, BWO’s, Dark hendricksons, and caddis are the next of the major dry fly hatches you’ll encounter in the Midwest.

D.A.

Ok DA – Thanks. I trimmed the wings more – after looking at them again….they were too big. That was a pic shot immediately after I finished it…

“Tie the wings in a dun style”….. Please explain that to me in a “flies for dummies” kind of way . I caught my first trout on a dry last August….on an embarrassing example of a trico that I tied…but it took a few fish any way. I am learning all of this on my own as I go(no friends are into this at all), so thanks for the patience! I saw some commercial trico spinners that were white….so I tried the light dubbing. I also tied some black ones. The wings are sparse deer hair – I thought it would help float the things.

On a side note: I thought my first BWO’s were actually pretty decent!

Tim

Wrapping your hackle dun style means simply wrapping them like this

See how the hackle runs vertical to the hook. Trim the bottom flat to give your trico a spinner look. Check out some poly-propeline yarn for your psinner wings as they float way better than any other material, especially deer hair. It’s cheap to buy and easy to use.

Good luck,
D.A.

BWO Dries: #16-20, gray bodies, dun to light blue dun color wings. Throw in some dark olive and maybe some dark tan bodies and you’re set.

D.A.

Thanks for the help, Dave! I appreciate it.

Tim