Pete S Carpet Bug Fly Pattern

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Pete s carpet bug fly pattern.

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. Try it tied with or without soft hackle. Finally here is a video of pete s carpet bug. Pete s carpet bug gray sizes.

Black utc wire small notes. Simple to tie and durable the ray charles should be found in every tailwater fly box. Tmc 3761 14 18 thread. Keith s 18 jul 2011 04 04.

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. 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. Emerger patterns cripples. Arizona simi seal crowley perch dubbing back.

Can be tied with or without soft hackle. Midge patterns and chironomids. Small holo black tinsel rib. This simple fly is becoming my go to pattern.

This post was written by pete shanafelt. The body of this fly gets darker when wet and becomes even better looking in the water. Rather than using ostrich herl the body was picked out fibers often antron dubbing. Catch fly fishing has without question the single most impressive and complete collection of scuds and sowbugs of anyone in the fly fishing industry.

Effective colors grey tan and pink. Rainbow sow bug fly pattern quick durable deadly duration. 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. Danville fire orange 6 0 body.

2019 bighorn bighorn fly patterns bighorn river fly patterns bighorn river hot fly. Pete shanafelt of the bighorn angler ties the carpet bug. 14 18 kcdpps1016. The dark back imitates the natural insect very well.

The carpet sowbug pattern originated about ten years ago as a variation off the ray charles.