I began using Cul de Canard in the eighties, just when most
other Italian anglers similarly discovered its existence, but I
must admit that although I was appreciating its features, for
the first few years I did no...
Sometimes I have asked myself where I find the ideas to make artificial flies and the answer is that I continue to draw inspiration from my patterns. This is because I have the belief that each pattern can be improved an...
Some years ago, I met the well-known fly tyer Jean Louis Teyssié in an event tying artificial flies.
I showed to Jean Louis some of my fly patterns and he showed me how to tie the tube bodies.
Teyssiè poured a little...
In 1994 it was published in the Italian Fly fishing magazine "Fly Line", a my articles where I proposed to bend upwards the stretch near eye of a hook shank right, to give the fly more balanced and stable in water.
Wrap...
Tie the Mirage is very simple, just you have to be careful to use a feather with all the fibers intact otherwise you cannot get the a imitation with the body and the tails perfect. Because the CDC is a precious material,...
In the book “Magie in CDC”, my first book about CDC, I proposed a ant fly pattern that is tied with a single CDC hackle.
I created the ant following the tying process with whom I had tied an ant hairs of deer in the...
I always considered the tying Paraloop incomplete because, even if it highlight the entire body of imitation and provide it an awful lot rooster’s fibers support, cannot provide it vertical wings, key feature of the ...
Wanting to get an imitation of ephemeral like the Mirage, but even smaller, I thought of using, in alternative of a full CDC feather, a simple fibers bundle and, after several tests, I put togheter a dressing to which I...
I think it is obvious that the tying process of the Mirage 2 proved a source of inspiration for other flies. The imitation of May fly that I called Mirage 3 is part of a series of artificial I developed inspired by the M...
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...
For some time, I wanted to create a nymph emerging that would give the impression of making the movements and contractions typical of the nymphs that try to get rid of insect shuck.
I knew that to get what I wanted, I h...
The parachute fly has its strengths and weaknesses. The advantages, in
my opinion, are that the hackle placed over the chest, that allow the fish to see perfectly the body
of fly and that, the body of fly, lying on the...
When I started using CDC, I realized that it was naturally be followed by every fly I make, another representing its evolution and that another, following a logical process as simple as to seem natural.
This process b...
Several years ago, I conceived a extended body achievable using several materials, elk hair, fibers of pheasant, goose and other large birds, polypropylene, foam and more. The body is obtained by forming a loop with one ...
As I crossed the rooster hackle around the X of foam for tie the Thorax, I thought that, if I had wrapped a 45 ° tilted forward, I would get slimmer imitation, with the collar hackles of fly that, instead of penetratin...
The French fly tier Marc Petitjean has designed the system to get the body of a fly using a CDC hackle.
Not all of CDC hackles are suitable for the purpose, are usable only those that have the fibers that reach the tips...
I created this fly pattern in the nineties and made known in an article that was published in the Italian Fly Fishing Magazine “Fly Line” the month of January 1998. Then, I inserted it in my first book about CDC “M...
While I tie the Mirage, saw the possibility of obtaining, in a simple and fast manner, a version of it suitable both for fishing in fast water, both slow (with a little modification). This version of the Mirage is more r...
Immediately after I had created the Mirage, I realized that I
had achieved something that went beyond the simple creation
of an artificial fly: I discovered that the CDC could be used in
a manner different from the co...
After to have created the Mirage, I thought that with combination of a duck hackle with a CDC hackle I could to obtain a robust extended body and wings soft. The tying procedure is similar to that of the Mirage, with the...
If I had to mention the fundamental natural materials for the
construction of artificial flies, one of the first which I would
think would be the partridge feather. I've always loved this
feather, and if I see an oppo...
In the eighties, the most used system to tie the wings of a CDC may fly spent was to overlay two bundles of fibers, the bases of one over the tips of the other, and then fix them, half of their length, in a horizontal p...
The tying process Upset Hackle can be used to tie imitations of different kinds of insects. I leave to your imagination to decide how to make the best, however, to get you going, I propose the dressing Wasp.
Often, to create my fly patterns, I draw inspiration from classic flies and, on this occasion, I wish to propose the CDC version of a mythical fly: the Gary LaFontaine Sparkle Pupa. Gary LaFontaine, great fisherman and i...
For tie a CDC emerger, I use the feathers that at the base have cottony fibers. Usually, I trim off those fibers because they are hydrophilic, but in this case their susceptibility to absorb water is useful to give to th...
After creating the R Nimph, I thought that I could add to the group of emerging flies also the Cripple imitation. The Cripple imitates the nymphs emerging, having trouble to get rid of shuck, remain trapped in the surfac...
From any years, due to the progressive degradation of fresh water, the family of midges has grown in importance for the purpose of fishing.
These insects, which were once found almost exclusively in still water, now you...
Initially, I tie the extended body of this midge with the same criteria with which I tie the body of CDC Midge and imitation resulted both imitative, both effective in fishing.
Subsequently, to concede something more to...
Few years ago, recalling the Tube flies that are constructed of metal tubes or plastic to get big flies, to be used in fresh and salt water, I had the idea to create a dry tube fly.
Using a tool loop of steel wire, I created an imitation of midge that, in addition to being effective in fishing, it surprise those who see for the simplicity and speed of assembly. Obviously, the end result of the assem...
The feature of this fly pattern is the extended body tied directly on the hook. The material that I use is a strip cut from a sheet of synthetic material used to pack electronic equipment such as computers.
The wings of this March Brown are tied with Self Split Wings process (which I have already proposed with the spent pattern), which allows you to split the wings with the same feathers with which you tie them.
