Fly Fishing Quotes and Thoughts
Chip
Drozenski's Thread Flies (North Carolina)
To put it simply, Chip fishes thirty or more days a year on the Delaware ( I know "guides" who don't spend as many days on the river). He first fished the river in 1968 and even though he's lived in NC since 1983, the Delaware is still his home water.
Chip has been an avid fly fisherman and tier for the last thirty-five years. A friend of Art Flick's, he was initially influenced and trained in the Catskill School of tying. His tying style has been greatly influenced by Rene Harrop, Mike Lawson, Charlie Broe, Hans Weilenmann, Gary LaFontaine and numerous guides that he's had the good fortune to know.
Chip believes that simplicity, silhouette, profile, movement, trigger-like oversized wings, and teardrop shucks, are some of the most important parts of fly design and construction. He has combined the different techniques of many tiers that concentrate on profile and movement into effective fly patterns. His patterns outperform many others on very selective fish.
He's developed several patterns, with his Thread Fly fast becoming popular for selective trout. Not the most rugged fly you'll ever fish, it does fit into the easy and simple to tie category very nicely. To see more of Chip's patterns, including his TF Brown Drake, Tear Drop Diving Caddis and others, click here.
TF
BWO
HOOK: light wire scud hook #16-24
THREAD:
Olive 8/0, shade to match natural
ABDOMEN:
Same Thread
THORAX:
Same Thread
WING:
One CDC feather in various shades
to match natural
SHUCK:
CDC Barbules
COMMENTS:
The thread fly is designed to accentuate profile/silhouette and movement of the CDC
shuck. One CDC feather and thread. It is deadly on
selective fish. The fly can be tied
as an upright wing or a cripple.
TYING INSTRUCTIONS
1.
Tie thread in at eye and form abdomen and thorax with
thread.
2.
Tie in CDC by the butt about a quarter of the way back from the eye with
the dull side facing up.
3.
Loop the CDC back toward the bend and then forward
toward the eye forming a wing case loop.
Leave some CDC to form an upright or forward wing.
Before tying off, stroke some CDC Barbules back to form shuck.
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