When I began to tie artificial flies, my role models were the classic ones.
I tried to tie the best known and what seemed to me the most innovative, such as the Thorax by the great Vincent Marinaro.
I tried fishing all the flies that I tied, so when I used the Thorax by Marinaro, I realized that t View more...When I began to tie artificial flies, my role models were the classic ones.
I tried to tie the best known and what seemed to me the most innovative, such as the Thorax by the great Vincent Marinaro.
I tried fishing all the flies that I tied, so when I used the Thorax by Marinaro, I realized that the fibers of rooster hackle, wrapped cross to eight between the wings, did not maintain long-tilt due at the intersection of the hackle turns.
After designing my parachute, I remembered the Thorax fly and thought that two strips of foam, opposite mounted on the hook, would force the coils of the rooster hackle to keep the angle at 45 ° hypothesized by Vincent Marinaro.
The strips of foam, mounted on the hook, have took the form of an X, which served to keep stable the angle of rooster coils.
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List of materials
Hook: TMC 100 size 12/14/16/18
Tails: Coq de Leon fibers
Ribbing: oval gold tinsel
Body: Poly thread
Thorax: Two foam strips.
Wings: Poly yarn
Hackle: rooster
Steps
Step 1
Tie tails and abdomen end tie near it a rooster hackle.
Step 2
I tie a foam strip over rooster hackle.
Step 3
tie another strip under the hook shank.
Step 4
tie a polypropylene yarn over the superior strip.
Step 5
wrap the hackle into the X foam Inclined by 45 °
Step 6
After wound two or three turns of hackle from left to right, I change direction and wrap the hackle from right to left, so as to cross the turns of hackle.
Step 7
tie the hackle near the eye of hook and cut excess.
Step 8
Tie the head of the fly.
Step 9
Take off fly from vise and cut the excesses of the two foam strips
Step 10
With a cut, I establish the height of wings.
