Dyret

Emerger imitating caddis, for trout and grayling. Beginner. Gunnar Bingen, 1991.

A clump of deer hair bound along the shank, its tips a tuft behind and its butts a square stub in front, with a dubbed body and a long palmered hackle trimmed underneath.

Materials

Steps

  1. Attach thread Attach the thread at 90% of the way along the shank with a few turns and trim the tag end.
  2. Tie in: deer hair Tie in a bunch of deer hair so the tips reach well past the bend (3× the gape from the tie-in point), angled about 2° up from the shank. A small stacked clump on top, tips back, bound down along the whole shank as an underbody.
  3. Wrap thread Wrap the thread to the start of the bend in touching turns.
  4. Tie in: brown cock hackle Tie in the brown cock hackle with a few firm thread turns. By the stripped stem, at the bend.
  5. Dub: olive dry fly dubbing Twist a thin noodle of olive dry fly dubbing onto the thread and wrap it forward to 90% of the way along the shank. Over the bound-down hair, to just behind the eye.
  6. Wind: brown cock hackle Wind the brown cock hackle forward to 90% of the way along the shank in 6 turns. Open turns, a long hackle.
  7. Tie off: brown cock hackle Tie off the brown cock hackle with a few thread turns and trim the excess.
  8. Whip finish Form a small head, whip finish with 5 turns and cut the thread. Behind the deer-hair butts.
  9. Trim: deer hair Trim the butts of the deer hair, leaving a short head 0.2× the gape long. Straight across, leaving a short square stub in front of the eye.
  10. Trim: brown cock hackle Cut away the fibres of the brown cock hackle underneath, so the fly sits low in the film.

History

Gunnar Bingen, who lives by the Rena, designed it around 1991 (his design sheet is dated that year) as a mix of the Superpuppan and the Devil Bug: in his words the Superpuppan "lacked" something in some situations, and the Devil Bug was efficient but fragile. Thomas Züllich notes that, though meant as a caddis emerger, it has earned its place in many other situations too. Torben Meldgaard captioned his photo of it "extremely ugly but highly efficient".

Fishing it

Bingen likes best to fish dry late in the evening, when big trout move in along the bank to feed on caddis. Many tyers, Bingen among them, clip the hackle underneath; Thomas Züllich leaves it full. Popular with trout and grayling anglers across Scandinavia, and Markus Hoffman calls his version a killer for northern grayling.

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