DRY FLIES

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CARROT

The day after my 50th birthday I had arranged to have a days guided fishing with the Australian Fly fishing and casting champion Peter Hayes on Arthur's lake in the Tasmanian high country. Two of the highlights of the day included the use of this fly. One was catching my first brown trout when lock style fishing with a three dry fly English style rig. The second was catching tailing trout using a rig of a dry with a small wet below. In both cases the fly at the top end of the rig was the carrot. This fly floats like a champion and if it does succumb to the murky depths then a simple false cast will revitalize it. It's a very visible fly, even in failing light, and whilst I can't imaging what the trout thinks it is they certainly like it.

Hook - Size 10 to 14
Thread - Fluro orange or black
Body - Orange Seals fur
Hackle - Furnace or Brown

A) Wind the thread in touching turns to the bend of the hook. Dub an acorn shaped body on the rear 3/4 of the hook shank. Tie in the hackle.
B) Wind on the hackle/s in touching turns toward the eye of the hook but stopping just short of the eye so as to leave enough room for the head. Tie the hackle/s off.
C) Build up a neat head of thread. Whip finish and varnish the head.