Here together with the first fly I created:
Year: 2014
#20 Blue Midge
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Brown
Body: 2x Krystal Flash Blue
Thorax: Wapsi Squirrel Spikey Dubbing
A midge from the “Tying Small Flies” book by Ed Engle: two strands of krystal flash and some dubbing. It doesn’t get more basic than this.
52 Weeks – 52 Flies
I have earlier tried the 365 days – 365 pictures on my norwegian blog, but that was by myself, this year we are a group at work that are doing 52 weeks – 52 pictures. With my passion for photography and flytying I immediately thought about doing 1 fly for each of the topics in the challenge. But that would be a bit boring for the rest of the group, so: this year I’m doing two challenges, one with normal pictures and one I’m doing here on dryfly.me. The challenge though is a bit interesting: I’m not doing traditional flies or patterns, but rather a freestyle fly that corresponds to the keyword I have for my photo challenge (you will see what I’m talking about once I start putting up the pictures).
As you can see from the list of keywords below, some of them might be a bit tricky, but it is the association between keyword and fly that is crucial. There is no correct fly for these keywords, as long as you can explain what you did and why you did it.
Each week I’ll end up with two photos, but if you want to tag along you can do just one!
| Week 1 | Begin at the beginning |
| Week 2 | Black and White |
| Week 3 | Self portrait |
| Week 4 | Hat |
| Week 5 | Vegetables |
| Week 6 | Something old |
| Week 7 | Dots |
| Week 8 | Dessert |
| Week 9 | Rule of thirds |
| Week 10 | Love |
| Week 11 | Sky is the limit |
| Week 12 | Conversation |
| Week 13 | Street Art |
| Week 14 | Look down |
| Week 15 | Green |
| Week 16 | Noooo! |
| Week 17 | Leaves or Trees |
| Week 18 | On the table |
| Week 19 | Layers |
| Week 20 | Running |
| Week 21 | Blue |
| Week 22 | Water |
| Week 23 | Horizon |
| Week 24 | I found it on the ground |
| Week 25 | A summer treat |
| Week 26 | Chocolate |
| Week 27 | Coffee |
| Week 28 | Red |
| Week 29 | Fence |
| Week 30 | Circle |
| Week 31 | From a distance |
| Week 32 | Get really close |
| Week 33 | My home |
| Week 34 | Fresh |
| Week 35 | Movement |
| Week 36 | Shoes |
| Week 37 | Playtime |
| Week 38 | Shadows |
| Week 39 | Door |
| Week 40 | Recreate a famous photo/picture |
| Week 41 | Frame (Framing) |
| Week 42 | Letters |
| Week 43 | Mirror |
| Week 44 | Technology |
| Week 45 | Symmetry |
| Week 46 | Architecture |
| Week 47 | Animals |
| Week 48 | Time |
| Week 49 | Signs |
| Week 50 | Light in the dark |
| Week 51 | Temptation |
| Week 52 | The end |
Long Winged Emerger
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Yellow
Body: Hareline Hare-Tron Dubbin Pale Yellow, UTC Ultra Wire SM Gun Metal Blue
Thorax: Hareline Hare’s Ear Plus Dubbin Dark Olive
Wing: 3xCDC Dark Olive
This low-hanging emerger is a very good fly to keep when targeting trout: the hook will break the surface tension and sit low in the water while the CDC will keep it afloat. A few drops of floatant (don’t put anything on the body!) will keep this in perfect position. I chose a long and fat wing on this to be able to float it down a river and keep it as low as possible in the water. The white body with the blue rib is a good visual clue, I could go without ribbing to loose some weight, but with the amount of CDC on this fly that should not be needed.
#20 Snowshoe Emerger
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Brown
Body: Polishquills Stripped Peacock Eye Quill Orange
Thorax: Fly-Rite Extra Fine Poly Golden Yellow
Wing: Snowshoe Rabbit Feet Aurivilli
The TMC 2488 is a great hook to tie these small emergers on: they are 3X wide – much easier to tie in on and will hook better than other hooks in this size. The Fly-Rite Extra fine dubbing again shows how good it is for creating a slim thorax on sub-20 hooks: it is my go-to dubbing that I should keep some more colors of available.
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