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The jassid

Small mouth - small flies!


By Preben Torp Jacobsen| Jassid | Grey Duster | Two flies in the act of sex |

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The headline contains some truth in the sense: When trout/graylings eat tiny surface-food, they only nead to open their mouth to a narrow slot and sip the fly in. If one presents them with a fly with a broad hackle - then they can’t suck it in through their narrow mouth.
Vince Marinaro in his book "A modern Dry-Fly Code", 1950 showed how he solved the problem.
For his famous 'Jassid' he uses:

Hook Model Perfect, regular size 16.
Hackles Two short-fibred black cock-hackles wound as a palmer up over the shank, and then cut on top and bottom, so that the fibres only point out to the sides.
Wing An eye-feather from a Jungle Cock tied down, so it covers the shank.
Jassid

Jassid

Jassid

Jassid

Jassid

© Preben Torp Jacobsen. 'Flyleaves', 1996.

It floats perfect in the surface, and by this imitates the small, black insects caught in the surface.

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