What a fisherman needs to make a fly depends on what sort of fly they want to make and what sort of fish they’re after. Some flies are dry, and float on the water, and some are wet, and sink below the surface. Some flies are made to represent aquatic insects or their larvae, or drowned adult insects. Some aren’t meant to be any particular insect, but to simply attract the fish.

One dramatic dry fly for trout is the Pont Audemer, which is used in chalk streams. The fisherman needs a 10, 12 or 14 size trout hook, black thread, red hackle feathers from a rooster or fibers from the tail of a pheasant cock. Hackles are feathers taken from the neck of the fowl. The fisherman would also need raffia for the fly’s body and black silk from the rib. The rib is tinsel tied around the fly’s body to mimic a segment of the insect’s body or its iridescence, or to add weight to the fly. Medium, natural red hackles and gray duck feathers are used for the Pont Audemer fly’s wing.

Another spectacular trout fly is the Pink Shimma, which is made of a long-shanked six to 10 sized hook, black thread, a tuft of bright pink marabou feathers and eight strands of pink shimmering tinsel. This fly has a pink chenille body, no rib, a pink cock hackle, and no wing.

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