Fly Patterns, Chillimps

Small orange fly for for garfish

By Martin Joergensen

Chillimps or Jydsk Chillimps is actually a classical Danish stream sea trout fly. My prime use of it though, is for garfish,. Used in small sizes (#12-16), it's quite deadly, and the garfish will willingly go for the fly, that hooks the hard billed fish very efficiently because of it''s small size.

Hook	12-16 down eye streamer
Thread	Red or black
Tail	Orange hackle fiber or small hackle tips, 2/3 of hook length
Body	Orange dubbing
Rib	Thin oval gold tinsel
Hackle	One orange palmer hackle and one slightly larger orange front hackle
Head	Tying thread

The garfish seems generally happy with any small orange fly. My friend Henning from the Bananaflies fishes them with a hook dubbed with orange SLF and a back of white antron. I did some experiments last year, using a hook wound over with some orange yarn. Highly effective and durable. But the Chillimps looks so much better.

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