Chub Flies
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Big Bertha Soft Hackle
The Big Bertha Soft Hackle is a spider style fly, weighted or unweighted, tied on a large hook and using pheasant tail for the body and Partridge for the hackle.
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Pheasant Tail 23
The Pheasant Tail 23 is a short nymph tied with a pheasant tail body and tail, wrapped with gold wire and topped with a rabbit fur collar.
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Summer’s Redtag Nymph
The Summer’s Redtag Nymph is lightly weighted with a very small brass bead. Despite the name, it’s an effective year-round pattern.
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The Misty K
The Misty K brasshead nymph is another in my collection of soft hackled weighted nymphs. This is another attractor Chub fly.
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Yellow Deer Hair Caddis
This Yellow Deer Hair Caddis dry fly is tied large to attract our Chub and is particularly effective in Spring, Summer and Autumn.
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Jessica’s Rainbow
Jessica’s Rainbow is a small streamer bug used to attract hungry Chub.
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Clive’s Caddis
This is a simple Caddis Larva pattern using just micro-chenille, peacock herl and 70d olive thread.
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Guinea Fowl & Partridge
This is an interesting nymph pattern sporting two hackles – one at the tail (Guinea Fowl) and the other at the head (partridge).
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Jessica’s Return
The Jessica’s Return nymph Chub fly is tied using a guinea fowl hackle and rabbit fur, both died pink, a bit of ice dubbing and wine-red 140d thread.
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Pheasant Tail R’n’B
The Pheasant Tail R’n’B is a fairly standard, weighted PT nymph but with a thorax tied with red and black PT fibers.
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Red & Olive Bug
The Red & Olive Bug is a very buggy nymph tied with olive rooster feather and olive and red rabbit dubbing.
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Brass Head Nymph
The Brass Head Nymph is inspired by Hans van Klinken’s Lead Head Nymph he used to fish fast, deep water for Grayling.