Pete S Carpet Bug Fly Pattern

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Pete s carpet bug fly pattern.

Try it tied with or without soft hackle. Pete s carpet bug gray tying instructions. Keith s 18 jul 2011 04 04. Pete s carpet bug is one of the top sow bugs on the big horn river.

Killer bug sizes 14 and 16 a modern twist of frank sawyer s killer bug this pattern has become a favorite pattern of bighorn river trout and beyond. The dark back imitates the natural insect very well. Can be tied with or without soft hackle. I caught a huge beetle that looks a lot like the giant root borer but it s a little bit lighter and has swept back antennae thinner and curved.

2019 bighorn bighorn fly patterns bighorn river fly patterns bighorn river hot fly. Tmc 3761 14 18 thread. Midge patterns and chironomids. He added dumbbell eyes and a wide gapped hook to create a pattern that takes carp that have their backs out of the water or are mudding several feet deep.

14 18 kcdpps1016. Catch fly fishing has without question the single most impressive and complete collection of scuds and sowbugs of anyone in the fly fishing industry. The carpet sowbug pattern originated about ten years ago as a variation off the ray charles. Black utc wire small notes.

Arizona simi seal crowley perch dubbing back. Pete shanafelt of the bighorn angler ties the carpet bug. Rather than using ostrich herl the body was picked out fibers often antron dubbing. This simple fly is becoming my go to pattern.

The body of this fly gets darker when wet and becomes even better looking in the water. Pete s carpet bug this is one of the most effective dubbed bodied sowbugs. Simple to tie and durable the ray charles should be found in every tailwater fly box. Emerger patterns cripples.

John bartlett who blogs at carp on the fly as john montana combined a traditional soft hackle fly with a san juan worm to create the hybrid fly. Danville fire orange 6 0 body. Finally here is a video of pete s carpet bug. Pete s carpet bug gray sizes.

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