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.
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...
My parachute is a fly pattern that has the characteristic of being constructed using a foam strip as post to wrap the hackle rooster: this is the spent version
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
