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Fly Patterns, Chillimps

Small orange fly for for garfish


An oldie pattern from GFF

By Martin Joergensen

Chillimps flyChillimps 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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From: Martin Joergensen · martin·at·globalflyfisher.com  Link
Submitted December 7th 2011

Nycflyangler,

It's not really fair yto call it a "streamer" hook, because what I use is a standard or long shank wet fly hook. A hook such as the Partridge Captain Hamilton Nymph YH1A is excellent. It's available down to size 18 and fine for this fly and many others.

Martin


From: Nycflyangler · nycflyangler·at·yahoo.com  Link
Submitted December 6th 2011

What brand and model hook are you using for this? It's hard to find streamer hooks smaller the #12.


From: Paul · pfkatoja·at·gmail.com  Link
Submitted March 22nd 2009

Thanks Martin. In this year i will try FF for garfish in Baltic Sea :)


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From: Martin Joergensen · martin·at·globalflyfisher.com  Link
Submitted March 22nd 2009

Paul,

Trying a quick Google search might help you.

Martin


From: Paul · pfkatoja·at·gmail.com  Link
Submitted March 22nd 2009

HI Could You send me some picture with this fly ? pfkatoja(at)gmail.com Thanks in advance ! :)



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