Comments on: Fluorocarbon and Flytying

By: wgsten

wgsten — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:15:14 +0000

Thanks Jerry, it is good to hear you are having success with this pattern. When i am tying in the Fluorocarbon i tie it in at the but with 2/3 turns of tying silk then i catch the Fluorocarbon and pull is so that there is only the tiny piece under the tying silk. No matter how neatly i do or do not tie up the flies i never once heard any trout that was fooled by them complain of how good or bad they were tied.

By: jerry

jerry — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:06:57 +0000

i have tried the fluorocarbon on klinkhammers with success .The normal dubbed body goes very shaggy after catching a good few trout but this is great. I’d like to be able to tie the fly so that i can’t see the outline of the fluoro on the body where i tied it in. At the moment i keep it straight along the shank as i tie it down. The trout don’t care , just me. Love the site by the way

By: wgsten

wgsten — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:54:16 +0000

Hi rtc thank you.
pm sent

By: rtc

rtc — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:17:52 +0000

Hi wgsten.Great article by the way.Would those spider patterns work as well using a partridge hackle.I don’t have waterhen and I want to tie a few of these as well as the klinkhamers.What do you think of the kamasan B100 hook for the klinkhamers? Also how do you tie off the hackle on your klinks?.Cheers and keep up the good work.

By: Enda

Enda — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:02:02 +0000

Thanks, I’ll try that. Love the site

By: wgsten

wgsten — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:47:44 +0000

Hi Enda. Thank you for your feedback i always like to hear of how other anglers get on when using this pattern. I never use gink when i fish with this fly. What i use is Dry Fly Silicone Mucilin. I soak the fly in this before i start fishing then i usually cast it well away from where i want to fish to wash off any excess oil. When all excess oil is gone i start fishing. Also when you are tying up the flies try and be sure that your hackle is even all round the post of the fly.

By: Enda

Enda — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:40:10 +0000

GReat article. My problem recently is the klinkhammer falling over on one side. WOuld the addition of gink to the body be causing this? I agree it’s a terrific fly, landed me a 4lb rainbow last week when no one else touched a fish.

By: wgsten

wgsten — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:45:01 +0000

When i am tying up the fly the main body as i call it is just tying thread which i first tie in at the head then on my way down to the bend of the hook i tie in the wing post. Then continue the thread down to th hook bend and tie in a lenght of fluorocarbon. Next i take the thread up to the back of the wing post then i wind on the fluorocarbon in touching turns up to the back of the wing post and tie it in. This fluorocarbon is what i call the overbody.

By: decco

decco — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:17:04 +0000

what exactly do you mean by overbody