01-31-2008, 05:06 AM
I have several sizes tied up in several colors. Some times it has worked well and other times it has not done very well at all. But that is the way with most flies isn't it.
I was fishing the Arkansas River one time when my usual dry dropper were not working. I switched to a klinkhammer with a elk hair caddis tied on at the eye of the Klinkhammer. I caught fish on the klink for a couple of hours without s single hit on the EHC. Then about 2 pm it switched to where I was catching browns on the EHC without any hits on the Klink. An hour later and they were not hitting either one.
I demonstrated the methods of tying the Klinkhammer at a TU meeting a few years ago. Besides this unique fly my reasons for demonstrating the klinkhammer was the use of Griffith's 14/0 which not many people at TU had tied with and Hans Van Klinken's method of wrapping and tying off the hackle. It is a method that I use a lot on my parachutes. Works well on very small parachutes where you may have trouble trapping the hackle under your whip finish. While I was tying the fly I told people that Colonel Klink came up with the fly and fished it exclusively. People were buying that thought so I had to tell them I was just kidding.
I use a TMC 200r with a kink behind thorax area mainly because I always have this hook around. Patridge makes a hook specifically for the Klinkhammer but I can't remember the number. I also used a TMC-205BL but I see that Tiemco does not make it any more.
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I was fishing the Arkansas River one time when my usual dry dropper were not working. I switched to a klinkhammer with a elk hair caddis tied on at the eye of the Klinkhammer. I caught fish on the klink for a couple of hours without s single hit on the EHC. Then about 2 pm it switched to where I was catching browns on the EHC without any hits on the Klink. An hour later and they were not hitting either one.
I demonstrated the methods of tying the Klinkhammer at a TU meeting a few years ago. Besides this unique fly my reasons for demonstrating the klinkhammer was the use of Griffith's 14/0 which not many people at TU had tied with and Hans Van Klinken's method of wrapping and tying off the hackle. It is a method that I use a lot on my parachutes. Works well on very small parachutes where you may have trouble trapping the hackle under your whip finish. While I was tying the fly I told people that Colonel Klink came up with the fly and fished it exclusively. People were buying that thought so I had to tell them I was just kidding.
I use a TMC 200r with a kink behind thorax area mainly because I always have this hook around. Patridge makes a hook specifically for the Klinkhammer but I can't remember the number. I also used a TMC-205BL but I see that Tiemco does not make it any more.
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