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Hey Thread Heads! The Bleeding Prawn is a steelhead fly pattern designed by prolific fly designer Bjorn Beech. Bjorn is the proprietor of the popular fly shop, The Fly Fisher, in Lacey, WA. I’m tying this steelhead fly on a size 2 hook today but is typically tied in sizes 2/0, 1/0 as well as the #2 sized hook.
The pattern has several named color variations. The color in the video is called Evening Storm and other variations include Alcan Express (blue and black), Victoria’s Secret Pink, Red Moon, and chartreuse and orange.
Bjorn is known for his fly patterns like the Jumbo Critter, Stinger Prawn and the Overdressed Hooker. His motto for these flies is Big, Loud and Wiggly. You can find his patterns listed in Jay Nicholas’ Modern Steelhead Flies and in Randall and Mary Kaufmann’s Fly Patterns.
Bleeding Prawn - Evening Storm Variant
Hook: Heavy wire Salmon Steelhead TMC 7999
Thread: Fire Orange 6/0 (140d)
Tail: Orange bucktail
Flash: 10 stands each gold speckled Flashabou
& Red Crystal flash
Body: Orange Ultra Chenille standard
Wing: Orange, red and black marabou
palmered in that order
Topping: Golden pheasant red body feathers
Source: Fly Patterns by Randall and Mary Kaufmann Pg. 302
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Modern Steelhead Flies by Jay Nicholas
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The Pop Up Worm is a hybrid of the San Juan Worm and the McTage's Trouser Worm flies. The foam discs on the tail of the Pop Up Worm keep the chenille suspended above the bottom and in cooperation with the brass barbell eyes, keep the hook point riding up. This should help prevent snags and entice any hungry vermivores like bass, carp, trout, and panfish.
To create the discs, I use 2mm craft foam cut out with a punch tool. I then pierce the discs with a bodkin before threading the discs through some ultra chenille (use superglue to stick them) with a dental floss threader.
In the video, I use flesh pink chenille for the worm body and brown foam for the clitellum of the worm, but try using chenilles and foam in brown, green, red, orange, and pinks to explore the possibilities of this fly pattern.
Pop-up Worm fly pattern recipe
Hook: Firehole 633 #10-14
Thread: Danville Shrimp Pink 8/0 (70d) *
Weight: Black brass barbell 4mm
Body: Flesh Ultra Chenille standard *
Clitellum: 2mm foam 3-4 discs **
*Substitute colors as seen fit
** Use a standard hole punch to form discs
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Lance Taylor developed the "Cardiff Special" back in 1996 for fishing at its namesake water body "Cardiff Pond", just north of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The pattern was only shared with a few close angling friends and members of the Northern Lights Fly Tyers and Fishers, and the fly proved to be highly effective at producing trout and perch on more water bodies than just Cardiff Pond.
The original inspiration for this fly pattern came from Roy Ramdeen’s pattern the "Brandon's Fancy" (named after his son). Lance had some struggles tying the fly like Roy’s version with the seed bead eyes more complicated time-consuming pattern. Lance made some adjustments to the fly and took some liberties with the color scheme as well, veering away from Roy’s more somber brown tones.
After field-testing the pattern and making some minor tweaks, the fly had become one of Lance’s goto flies and had served well over the years. He states that the fly had never failed to produce a fish for him and he had “yet to be skunked whenever I have used it. I've spent many enjoyable evenings on local pothole lakes catching fish when nobody else was getting a bite.”
I’ve made a couple minor changes to Lance’s original, adding a little more density in the legs and a small collar behind the bead, but overall the fly is much the same. Lance has also tied this with some variation in the dubbing using Diamond Dubbing for the body and thorax as well as a flashback version that he has found to be effective.
Cardiff Special nymph fly pattern recipe (Lance Taylor)
Hook: #3906B, Size 10-14.
Head: Gold bead to fit. I use the plastic ones, copper or black tungsten bead will work too.
Thread: Uni-Olive #8/0.
Tail: Bright Yellow Died Mallard Feathers.
Ribbing: 1 Strand of Crystal Flash Clear
Body: Rabbit Fur, Blue Wing Olive. Great Canadian Dubbing Co. (RD-116).
Wing Case: Natural Yellow Mallard. A shade lighter than the tail.
Thorax: Dark Olive Seal Fur.
Legs: Yellow dyed mallard (same as tail) -- 3 to 4 fibers each side of the body.
Cardiff Special nymph fly pattern recipe (Darren’s version)
Hook: #3906B, Size 10-14.
Head: Gold bead to fit 3.2mm on #10
Thread: UTC Olive 8/0 (70d)
Tail: Yellow mallard fibers
Ribbing: 1 stand pearl crystal flash
Body: Light olive rabbit dubbing
Wing Case: Yellow mallard feather
Thorax: Olive seal dubbing (or Simi-seal dubbing)
Legs: Yellow dyed mallard
Collar: Olive seal dubbing (or Semi-seal dubbing)
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Hey Thread Heads, these little beauties just arrived in the mailbox on Monday and I wanted to give you my opinion on this new line of tungsten beads from Firehole outdoors.
Before we get into it, I just want to let you know that I am not sponsored by Firehole and have paid for the beads out of pocket. This way I can give you my honest opinion on the product. I did get a bit of a discount by taking part in their pre-sale offer.
Colors
Basic metallics in silver, gold, copper, and nickel black
Matte White, cream puff (fluro), pink Floyd (fluro), true blood, screaming red (fluro), fire orange (fluro), pink panther(fluro), caddis green (fluro), chartreuse (fluro), autumn, royal blue (fluro), olive, almond joy, slate blue, dark olive, mounds, and black.
Positives
The color range is great. The metallics are bright and shiny. The fluorescent colors are really bright and UV glow under UV light.
The beads are available in 5 sizes currently. 2.0mm- 4.0mm incremented by 0.5mms for each size. This covers sizes 8-22 hooks.
The matte finish is really quite durable. It took a lot of effort to scratch through the paint
The color is applied inside the bead as well making it harder to chip
The matte finish takes paint well and it adheres well. Make your own speckled colors with some nail polish or paints.
Weights are very consistent with a random set of 4.0mm each weighing 0.45-0.46g
Cost per bead is reasonable with beads costing between 0.22 - 0.25 per bead. I priced out comparable beads at 0.30-0.36 each
Packages are interlocking. Nice for storage.
The packaging is rigid and is easy for stacking. The beads shipped inside small bags inside the plastic cases. The cover includes a color reference on the top as well as the hook range the bead is best suited for.
Negatives
There is a tiny bit of defect on some of the beads where they were hung for painting. It is quite small though and when the hook is placed on the hook, it isn’t noticeable.
Some of the coatings on the beads are slightly uneven. This isn’t a deal breaker and only noticeable on close inspection.
The bead size range only goes to 4.0mm so if you want beads for #6 or larger streamers you're out of luck. But it does look like a 4.5mm model is slated for production in the future.
So, with all this taken into consideration, these beads are a good buy in my honest opinion. The quality of the beads and the finish is really great quality. The price for the beads is also quite reasonable and actually less expensive than comparable products. I’m actually excited to see how the line of brass beads turns out as well. If you have anything else to add on the stones, leave a comment below, I’d love to hear your thoughts. If you want to get some of these beads, I’ll leave a link in the description below.
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