Many years back I tied a hellgramite pattern that used biots for its legs. I lost the last fly, recipe and tying instructions. Did anyone ever hear of this tye.
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Many years back I tied a hellgramite pattern that used biots for its legs. I lost the last fly, recipe and tying instructions. Did anyone ever hear of this tye.
Fishngene, the flyfisher formerly known as Mr Falling Springs created a simple hellgrammite with biots for the tail & antennae. Best I can recall: tied with the hook inverted, tie in a thin strip of swiss straw for the back, (& a short piece of fine gold wire to overwrap ) & the tail biots. Dub the thread with dubbing & wind to just behind the hook eye so a couple sparse turns of pheasant form more legs & then tie in the swiss straw. Overwrap with the wire & tie in the antenna biots. Fold the swiss straw back to form the head. Hook can be weighted with some lead wraps before tying. Can also use hackle for more legs. Caught plenty of smallies & trout. Anymore biots just complicated the tying, but over the years I've seen a few of the more realistic versions with lots of biot legs; which seemed to be sticking out of swannadaze wraps.:cool:
The one with the biot legs and wrapped with swannandaz is the fly. I was going to use glass beads but I think it'll make it too hard.
Sounds very interesting. Anyone have a pic?
Thought there was a picture in The Art of the Trout Fly, but the closest was Blackstones' stonefly nymph. Try http://www.flytyingforum.com/ in warmwater &/or realistics for the more complicated ties. :cool:
http://ffotw.com/?p=240 theres a great patern on here i use at times... look near the bottom
something like this?
http://www.flytyingforum.com/pattern1574.html
I use biots on my hellgramites. This is what I have been using.
Hook: 6x long, size 2 to 10
Thread: Olive 8/0
Dubbing: Dk. Olive, Dk. Brown, Black. 90% natural 10% syn. blend
Wingcase (overbody): Tyvek, colored with waterproof markers
Legs, Tail, Pinchers: Dk. Olive biots
Underbody: Lead, 2 pcs. tied flat on hook shank
Eyes: 2 small beads. Held by mono
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...s/P3050006.jpg
That's a great fly, beautiful workmanship, way to nice to fish. I'll tye up and send pics.
Tony,
THat is the best looking helgrammite I've ever seen. Wow! Thanks for sharing.