THE ORANGE STILLI
Winter Trials
just a lark - for now
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| "ORANGE STILLI" : a favorite neighborhood still water fly. |
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.. This is a backwater eddy, film-fished, pattern that demands frisky trout, warm days, still or slack water, and bright sun: rare indeed this time of year. It is fished with a long leader on a slack line and sinks slowly in the gyre produced in slack water whirlpools.
.. The neighbor kids are busy tying these for the upcoming summer. Many are needed because many are lost. Many of the gyres that the local kids fish are seasonal phenomena and depend on rate of flow and water depth. They come and go with river conditions. Many are behind snags and sweepers with sunken limbs and branches. Some are shore-side features behind mini-headlands where debris and trout accumulate.
.. Trout hang out in the slack water that is adjacent to the gyre and pick off tidbits of flotsam that slowly move about in the hydraulic "Lazy Susan."
.. This fly is designed to take advantage of the rotating gyre. Very long tail fibers balance the puffy body and allow the fly to respond to the complex, (albeit it slow,) cross currents of each gyre. The kids are constantly experimenting with the various components of the fly. How much wire? How long the tails? How puffy the body? The current fly design is successful and beginning to become standardized.
THE CURRENT SIMPLE RECIPE
Hook: 10 - 14
Thread: 6/0 black
Tail: Pheasant tail fibers,
Body: Orange Antron, (or wool.)
Rib: red or copper colored wire
Thorax: Tan Antron - combed out puffy and trimmed
Wing case: Pheasant tail fibers
Head: thread
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| WALLPAPER (Loaf #8): SIMPLE SOURDOUGH |