Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Posts: 25 Location: Oslo, Norway
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:24 am Post subject: Kasserermaur - treasurers ant
Hi,
I just had a brilliant weekend tying flies at Villmarksliv in Hamar. I was invited to be at the stand of the Hedmarks Flyfishing club. Very, very nice people. I felt quite humbled tying next to such skilled people like Terje and having Vidar Steimler right behind me making bamboo rods. Mine is on the way and I cant wait to have a real Steimler rod. Might take a while though. These things don´t fall from the plastic tree.
The big thing in the waters around Oslo is "ants". I have been thinking about this for the last few month since I heard so much about it. However, the existing patterns did not exactly fit my taste. I remembered what my pal Eric from Reno kept mentioning about Ralph Cutters perfect ant. A brilliant design in his own right, but me and the clubs Kasserer wanted legs over hackle. We agreed that instinct driven creatures do react on such features / triggers.
So here you go — the Kasserermaur (maur = ant) was born. It was a bit hard to find black deer hair, but we were lucky and found some at a stand around the corner http://www.foxtail.no/ had some.
Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Posts: 25 Location: Oslo, Norway
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:41 pm Post subject:
Glenn Parkin wrote:
nice looking fly t.z. simple for you maybe but I think I will give it a shot
Here´s how you do it - in case you wonder - after laying a thread base tie in a small bunch of deer hair by the eye and cover with thread going backwards to the hook bend at about opposite to the barbe point. Form a ball shape body segment with dubbing and fold the deer hair forwards. Secure with 2 or 3 wraps, fold 3 or 4 hair fibres backwards and keep tying the rest of deer hair forward by covering with thread. Repeat the process - dubbing and folding over - with just less dubbing so you get a smaller segment. Check some Ant pics or the real things in your area.They vary in proportions. Whip finish under the deer hair so a bunch extends over the hook eye. The rest is trimming with scissors and crushing the legs a bit. _________________ tight lines,
Thomas
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but I think I will give it a shot
