can anyone suggest dry flies for beginners?

can anyone suggest dry flies for beginners? I'm wanting to change from wets and lures for a shot of dries . iv got dry size 12 kamasan to hand , Iv tried a couple of paras ....

any suggestions ?

mark

[arkle]

Gold ribbed hare's ear, C.D.C & Elk, the list is endless. A lot depends on where you want to fish them & what the locals are using.

[Flyfishing-UK]

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[hametied]

for beginners its got to be the F fly. It really depends on your experience with techniques on other flies. CDC buzzer is another easy to tie 'dry'/emerger type pattern. Both these will work well at Millhall and Swanswater, which are local to you I think, Marky

Wullie

[richardw]

Originally Posted by marky

can anyone suggest dry flies for beginners? I'm wanting to change from wets and lures for a shot of dries . iv got dry size 12 kamasan to hand , Iv tried a couple of paras ....

any suggestions ?

mark

With that size of hook, some red (scarlet) knitting or darning wool, natural red (Americans call it brown) cock hackles and some black thread, you could make yourself a few dozen Red Hackles.

Here is a cut-and-paste from an old thread:

If you like quick to tie patterns and if you get the soldier beetles blown from the grasses onto the water in summer you might like the Red Hackle.

Hook: 10 to 14
Thread: Black
Body: Dubbed red wool (scarlet)
Hackle: Cock, Natural red (some call it brown)
Rib: The tying thread

Three or four turns of thread behind the eye, tie in the hackle by the butt end, concave side facing you, tip out over the eye.

Dub on the pinch of red wool and wind the body to the bend. Let the thread dangle at the bend.

Wind three to four touching turns of the hackle at the head end to make a conventional chimney sweep's brush shape, then continue winding in open ribbing turns down the body to the dangling thread. Tie in the hackle with two tight turns then open ribbing turns back up to the hook eye. Whip finish and varnish. Pull off the hackle point left either at the tail or in the pliers and thread it through the still wet eye to clean out excess varnish.

It's about 2,000 years old and catches me several fish every year, especially when the soldier beetles are about.

richard

[t1978d]

Shipmans buzzer, very easy to tie. Get a piece of poly yarn and extend it beyond the eye and bend, tie a body of whatever color material suits and rib it.
http://www.thenewts.net/media/albums...ans_buzzer.jpg

for river fishing , river carron . not so much still waters

edit ... CDC what is the wing exactly ? I know its called CDC plum but from what bird or cape ?

[Mrtrout]

Hi Marky, you'll never go far wrong with a Comparadun, Para Adams,
or G&H sedge as the sun goes down.

[greenock]

Originally Posted by marky

for river fishing , river carron . not so much still waters

edit ... CDC what is the wing exactly ? I know its called CDC plum but from what bird or cape ?

Its a duck and i'm sure its from their **** thou i may be wrong

[urbanflyman]

griffths gnat and comparadun are good starter patterns and work great...