PMD Ice Emerger
Hook: TMC 101, Dia Riki 310, #18-20
Thread: UTC 70, 8/0 Uni-thread, Brown.
Body: Thread body or dubbing, Hareline Dubin, #24, Cholocate
Tail: Microfibetts, divided
Wing bud: Ice dubbing, U.V. Light Yellow
Thorax: Hareline Dubbin #24, Chocolate.
Thread Ice Emerger
BWO Thread Ice Emerger
Tie On two Microfibetts and split them.
Dub with the color that you want the body to be. This is Hareline Chocolate dubbin.
The wing color for PMDs that I use.
You may have to tie a few to get the amount correct.
Dub onto the tread and make it fairly tight.
With your thumb and index finger, slide the dubbing down the thread so it bunches up on the thread.
Once it is on top of the hook shank, make sure you hold it there with your fingers and make a complete wrap of thread around the hook shank. When you pull down on the thread, the dubbing ball should stay put right on top of the hook shank.
Awesome tutorial-- is the ice dubbing a hot spot for the fish or just visuals for the fisherman?
ReplyDeletecheers!
Brian,
ReplyDeleteThe spot is to imitate the emerging dun. A lot of emergers do not make it completly out of the shuck and some fish key in on this. This imitates a specific time of emergence, but it doens't limit it to just then. I usually fish this deep as a searching pattern with a nymph rig or behind a dry if I am sight fishing to a fish. There is nothing that compares to a fish rejecting a dry and them putting one of these in front of them and having them take just like a natural. It's awesome!
Awesome! I think I will tie a few...
ReplyDeletethanks
--Brian J.
Juan,
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting that tutorial. I am betting it is going to catch me a bunch of fish.
Later,
Elton
nice fly buddy look a bit like one umpqua sold years ago
ReplyDeleteHi Juan,
ReplyDeleteGreat fly. Wanted to ask about a few of the pics at the top - the bodies on these look a bit different from the finished fly at the bottom...Are these dubbed bodies, or some type of other material?
Many thanks for a great site and all the info you pass along through it.
Regards,
Jon
Jon,
ReplyDeleteThe two flies at the top of the page are thread bodies with a thread rib and a x-small wire rib. I sometimes tie them his way as it gives the fly a different look, but still keeps the emerging wing. Thanks for asking the question.
Juan
Is there a video tutorial on this fly? Thank you.
ReplyDeleteYes!!!
DeleteHere is the link: https://vimeo.com/44517730