Baltic Candy

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Didn’t tied a Baltic Candy since a long time, but I guess it looks quite ok…

Weighted with lead wire, it will fly like a dart thrown by Phil Taylor!

„DETLEF“ Step By Step – aka TFFKAPF

The step by step tutorial about the PINK FLUFFY is destroyed. It don’t know why, but it was not shown right on the blog. So I did it again and I gave the fly a new name, because I didn’t like Pink Fluffy anymore.

So I called the fly „DETLEF“ – also known as the fly formerly known as PINK FLUFFY. Why? Don’t know , it just fits.

Pink Fluffy SBS (26)

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You can fish for sea trout even in the winter time. It’s a very hard kind of fishing with temperatures sometimes under 0°C, but there is a chance to catch an awesome „Silberbarren“. It’s common knowledge, that sea trouts like the color pink, especially in the cold season. It’s also common knowledge, that sometimes, the sea trouts like a very slow retrieve. For that situations, the DETLEF is a really good choise. The soft materials move very nice in the water, even if you strip the fly in very slowly. On the other hand, it’s not very complicated to tie and when you use other colors like beige, tan and brown, you got a very nice shrimp pattern for the rest of the year.

One very important point: Don’t use too much material! Less is more!

Materials used for this fly:

  • Hook: Gamakatsu F314 # 6
  • Weight: Lead Wire fine
  • Dubbing: Ice Dub Pearl, SLF Saltwater Dubbing Pink and SLF Saltwater Dubbing White/ Pearl
  • Front: Mallard, Pink Hackle Fibres
  • Antennas: Fluoro Fibre Pink
  • Eyes: Selfmade Shrimp Eyes
  • Horn: Polar Dub White Transparent
  • Loop-Hackle: White CDC and Pink Hackle
  • Back: Mallard
  • Thread: Veevus GSP 50D White

Pink Fluffy SBS (1)

Do a little drop of superglue on the shank and wind on some fine lead wire.

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Form a little dubbing ball with the ice dub at the end and tie in some fibres of Mallard.

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Take a bit of pink SLF and tie it in.

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Take some long soft fibres from a pink hackle and tie them in as shown. Add some strands of pink Fluoro Fibre antennas.

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Dub a little ball with Ice Dub and tie in the shrimp eyes. The dubbing ball will seperate the eyes in a nice way.

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Take some Polar Dub in white and tie it in as a horn.

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Form a thread loop and then dub the body with the SLF.

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Put a big white CDC feather on the Petitjean Magic Tool and push it in by using a pink hackle.

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Grab the fibres with the clamp of the Magic Tool and and cut off the stems. Then put the fibres in the waxed thread loop and twist the loop.

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Wind the hackle fibres-CDC-Mix around the body and catch it with your thread.

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Some fibres from a Mallard feather will be used for the back of the fly. So, the fly swims in the right position and the black/white gives a great extra contrast. Do one or two whip finish and use some varnish to secure the knot. That’s it! Detlef is ready!

Pink Dutchman

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My good friend André Miegies gave me once some really nice feathers, which were dyed by himself in some terrifc colors. If I remeber right, it was white ear pheasant. Beautiful feathers with very long soft fibres. I used two feathers for this shrimp pattern in the successful color pink. As antennas, I used crazy legs, which give the fly a little bit extra movement.

André is from the Netherlands, so it’s clear why I gave the fly this name…. ;-)

Here are the materials:

  • Hook: Gamakatsu F314 #6
  • Antenna: Crazy Legs two toned
  • Horn: Senyos Laser Dub pink
  • Ribbing: Mono
  • Hackles: Spey Hackles made by André Miegies in Pink
  • Body: Ice Dub Pearl
  • Eyes: Mono Eyes made by Holger Lachmann