F Fly Pattern Tie or Buy
The F Fly is one of the simplest and deadliest fly patterns. Designed by Marjan Fratnik it is an all round Trout & Grayling fly pattern. With its large flay delta wing silhouette it can be used to represent many caddis, olives and midge species. We have it in a range of different patterns.
F Fly Pattern Tying Materials
| Hook: | Dry fly size 16 to 24 |
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| Thread: | Try Nano Silk Grey 18/0 or Olive 18/0 for fine flies, Uni Grey Black 8/0, Uni Grey 8/0, Olive 8/0 thread | |
| Rib: | None | |
| Bead: | None | |
| Legs: | None | |
| Thorax: | None | |
| Thorax Cover: | None | |
| Wing: | A few (3 or more) CDC feathers - tips | |
| Wing Post: | None | |
| Wing Case: | None | |
| Collar: | None | |
| Hackle: | None | |
| Tail: | None | |
| Body: | Try dubbed CDC (this is the original dressing), mole skins natural mole skin or picric mole skins produce eexcellent bodies or try Hand Stripped Peacock Quills |
F Fly Pattern Tie or Buy Pattern Step By Step Tying Difficulty 2/5
| 1 | Tie on the thread in touching turns to the hook bend |
| 2 | Add in either the CDC dubbing (with Nano Silk simply split and create aa dubbing loop) or wax with Uni. Rerurn to the thoracic area |
| 3 | Select three CDC feathers (size 16) or 2 for size 14 and one for size 20 or smaller. Match the feather tips |
| 4 | Tie the CDC feathers directly on top of the hook shank. |
| 5 | With finger and thumb pressure on base of the feathers puil these gently under the securing wraps to condence the wing and reduce the length. |
| 6 | Tie of and varnish the head. Note with Nano Silk you can achieve a stunningly small head with the F Fly and all micro flies |
F Fly Pattern Fly Variations
You can tie a variety of deadly variations of this pattern, the Pink F Fly is deadly for lifting grayling, Olive CDC and threads are superb olive imitiatoin for LDO, and all Olive variants.
The F Fly pattern is available in a variety of different fly variations as follows:
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