F Fly Pattern Tie or Buy

18 February 2015 | Admin

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	Buy F Flies
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: