Welcome back to the fly fishing podcast. Go tie a fly I call Black Magic. It's very
very simple. It imitates a very small black sedge which is on the water at this time of
the year in the UK. It's a variant of what you might call a CDC shipments but not quite.
It's very simple fly to tie, very effective and sort of combines a number of different
concepts where flytie is concerned. I'm going to use CDC feathers for the tail and also
for the wing. I'm just going to tie in two for the tail. You can tie three. I want to
keep these nice and short. It's only just to give a little bit of support at the end
of the hook. That's basically enough. Just clip those off. Go back over them. Then we're
going to tie in the wing. You want to tie the wing just about there. The reason why we're
doing that is actually the wing isn't going to point over the other hook like a shipments
but it's going to be fanned out above. I'm going to cut this off. Look at the back here.
Tie back. Believe it or not we need to complete the fly. I'm just going to go back down to
the bend. Here we're just going to put in a bit of dubbing. Dubbing can be seals fur.
It can be a blend. I'm going to use the Celtic blend from Celtic Flycraft. I'm just using
the black with a little bit of clarity red in it. I've had a scraggly body. Dubbing on.
Do some proportion of seals fur here. As the trout take this it will scrub out. We can
do as a little velcro pad beforehand. I tie to the base of the wing. Then I'm going to
tie in front of it. By doing that we cut the wing up at the front. You can see that. That
profile actually gives a reverse profile of a sedge wing. For some reason probably because
trout are used to seeing sedges coming at them in all different directions. They find
this fly particularly tempting. I'm just going to finish off with a couple of half
pictures. Just bring them up. This is a killing little dry fly at the beginning of summer
all the way through. You will see a lot of black sedges out on the riffles. Jumping about
coming back down before the large red sedge starts to come onto the water. Then you have
it. Come and see me soon and I'll show you a few more patterns which are catching fish
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as well. Tight line sir.
