Fly Ideas and Concepts

One technique I use for making more pronounced tails on my iso's is using 6 micro fibits and super- gluing them together in pairs. You could use this to super- glue the strands of krystal flash together and get the effect you want.

Gave those mylar minnow patterns a try.

They... Are... AWESOME!!!!! ;D
The holographic qualities and the amount of realism you can add with something as simple as a sharpie makes for an awesome monster brown magnet.

Any minnow or streamer patterns that are continual winners for everyone? And when tying a pattern that is "hinged" with two hooks, what is the best way to create that connection?

Here's pic of my minnow. ; :)

http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/y...r/IMG_1870.jpg

Hi

I use to tie my emergers with CDC. It's quite efficient on low and flat stream. It's important to make a "bubble" with CDC, it increases the flottability.
For faster stream I made "wings" of the emerger with hare ears or squirrel back. Good flottability.
I just discovered the squirrel and I like it because it's easier to tie than hare.

For body something efficient here in france is quill of turkey or of condors.
Very realistic body.

I put a link of a french tyer, very good one, it could be interesting. I just put the link for emergers but you can find example of every type of fly.

http://www.jpdessaigne.com/Lesemerge...s_sommaire.htm

Please give me your feedback abour the link. i'm curious to compare which flies are used in USA and France, in order to know if we fish with the same types of fies.

Clema 74-
Thanks for the link, the flies there are very nice. It was interesting to see that the flies seem a little more wet fly oriented than the ones we have here in the U.S., not as much hackle in our emergers. Funny thing is though, when I fished my home town of Celigny, CH, last summer, I didn't encounter anyone who was using any euro nymphing techniques, guess it wasn't a good day for it. Well, atleast the fish were receptive to both the U.S. and European patterns I tied. :)
Anyway, since my knowledge of the French patterns is not as good as my Swiss, what are some other flies from the nymph and dry fly categories that you know of?

Hi Euro

I saw you're talking a lot of euro nymphing or french leader... In fact I don't see exactly what it is.

For JP Dessaigne, he's a very goof fly tier. but quite exentric (even if his flies are very effectives).

One fly very used here is hare's ear, used as a dry or as a emerger.

http://www.jpdessaigne.com/Lesemerge...llelievre.html

I like his way of tying hare, nice flies, efficients.
http://www.jpdessaigne.com/Astuces/c...ettevideo.html
http://www.jpdessaigne.com/Astuces/c...ievremixte.htm

I tie it with turkey's quill olive color or yellow light for body.
Quite efficient on tough trouts.
I do it with squirrel's hackle too.

We've got some more classics flies.

For the emergers... yes we love the flies which fishing "cul dans l'eau" (ass in the water) :)

You from Swiss? :)
Very nice rivers there...

for nymphs

http://www.jpdessaigne.com/Lesnymphe...s_sommaire.htm

I use simple ones: hare's ear nymph, pheasant tail classic, or with colored thorax.
http://www.jpdessaigne.com/Lesnymphes/fto/fto.htm
scuds
like this one
http://www.gobages.com/montage/affiche_montage_596.html


For dries
http://www.jpdessaigne.com/Lesmouche...s_sommaire.htm

a lot with cdc, hare,quite classic for my way of fishing.
http://www.gobages.com/montage/mouches_seche.html

in general for dries and emergers here we like flies which fish low on the water (cul dans l'eau :) )

I don't know if I really answer to your question. i hope so :)

P.S your stroneflies are great!

Clema 74-
Thanks for the links, and I can see what you meant by excentric. :)
Those videos were a great help, it was interesting to see how a wing case was not added to the hare's ear, it looked very good. Also, he didn't twist the dubbing onto the thread itself, but instead did a dubbing loop, is that the main way that it is done where you live, very good effect on the look of the fly. Also, on my last trip to Switzerland, I was surprised to see almost completely american flies in the shop I went to, thought there would be some more local patterns. Anyway, do you have any of your own creations, because if you do, I think we'd all like to see some pics at some point. :)

My other question was that I heard that there is good fishing in Chamonix, I saw some pictures at a site called[ftp=ftp://www.gourmetfly.com/]www.gourmetfly.com/[/ftp], and that the fishing is fantastic there, any thoughts on the area?

P.S. to get "cul dans l'eau", you first need "cul de canard" ;D

By the way are woven flies big where you are, because I have some patterns you may be interested in.

vive la suisse! ;D

Coc de leon!

Hello guys,

I hope you liked the links. I don't know if it's quite different from the flies you use to tie, or with differents techniques from yours. I just try to share and participate to the forum.

Yes his way of tying hare is quite interesting. Adn very efficient which is the most important.

Now the fishing is closed here untill march. So I'm filling my fly boxes. I'll try to take some pictures, if you want. Even if I'm not a good tyier.

Chamonix might be a good place for fishing. It's in the Alps. So of course there are a lot of little rivers and mountain lakes. But you need to wait that the snow melts. They are late and fast rivers with very beautiful wild trouts. Annecy is interesting too, the lake is beautiful and famous for pike fishing. And a couple of rivers could be interesting too.
I think there is a river (I don't remember the name) which goes directy to Geneva's lake. And here is a migration of big big lake's trouts.

I saw there are a lot of good places on the site you put the link.

Jura for example is very very good for flyfishing and not far from Swisserland. I use to go fishing there... It's a very beautiful middle mountain. The rivers are incredibles with big wild trouts and graylings. my favorite place for flyfishing.
If you want more infos I can help.

donc tu parles français en fait euro?


Coq de Leon? yes... Coq Pardo... :)

Clema,

Someone suggested I try fishing the Roya Valley area near the Italian border?

It looked like a 2-3 hour car ride from Nice.

Also heard the Tende area, and the Esteron River to the west?

Any good?

thanks