Hi, I’m an avid fly fisherman and frequent the forbay. I teach the fly tying classes for our club, the Santa Cruz Fly Fishing club, and would love to have a class that features one of your clousers. Would you be so kind to tell me the materials you use in this fly. The name of the fly would be nice too. I understand if you would prefer to not share that information. Thanks, Tight lines, Elaine. PS, there are 3 “0’s” in my email. ALSO: there is one other fly that I would like to know what the materials are. I’ll make a comment under that fly too.
Hi Elaine,
I would be glad to share these patterns with you. The patterns are pretty basic clousers tied in the style of Steve Adachi. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z07ao0bcXc) The flies in the blog post are tied with flash and slinky material on Umpqua size one Jig hooks. My flavor of the day was Redfish, Yellow, White. and the pink one is Claret, Tan, Pink (Ken Oda’s favorite colors). I have so many variations of this fly that I try not to tie more than three of any pattern for the next day of fishing. I usually go off of fishing reports and past outing success in choosing colors for the next day. Also, I like to use lateral scale flash instead of flashabou. I think it reflects differently. Also I tie them with heavy eyes and light eyes depending on if the fish are hitting fast moving flies or slow. Lighter eyes for slow presentations sometimes works better. Plus I sometimes tie a uv flourescent red head on them. Also, I tie them fatter if I use Craft Fur. Craft fur clousers work better when fishing the slow retrieve.
Let me know if you need anything more. You can email me at msyn@carabelli.com
Hi, I’m an avid fly fisherman and frequent the forbay. I teach the fly tying classes for our club, the Santa Cruz Fly Fishing club, and would love to have a class that features one of your clousers. Would you be so kind to tell me the materials you use in this fly. The name of the fly would be nice too. I understand if you would prefer to not share that information. Thanks, Tight lines, Elaine. PS, there are 3 “0’s” in my email. ALSO: there is one other fly that I would like to know what the materials are. I’ll make a comment under that fly too.
Hi Elaine,
I would be glad to share these patterns with you. The patterns are pretty basic clousers tied in the style of Steve Adachi. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z07ao0bcXc) The flies in the blog post are tied with flash and slinky material on Umpqua size one Jig hooks. My flavor of the day was Redfish, Yellow, White. and the pink one is Claret, Tan, Pink (Ken Oda’s favorite colors). I have so many variations of this fly that I try not to tie more than three of any pattern for the next day of fishing. I usually go off of fishing reports and past outing success in choosing colors for the next day. Also, I like to use lateral scale flash instead of flashabou. I think it reflects differently. Also I tie them with heavy eyes and light eyes depending on if the fish are hitting fast moving flies or slow. Lighter eyes for slow presentations sometimes works better. Plus I sometimes tie a uv flourescent red head on them. Also, I tie them fatter if I use Craft Fur. Craft fur clousers work better when fishing the slow retrieve.
Let me know if you need anything more. You can email me at msyn@carabelli.com