Une Création

Not that it's really something new. More like a bright Gotcha or Crazy Charlie. But I believe in it.

By Martin Joergensen

	Une Création  Martin Joergensen

This is a creation—Une Création in French. Don’t know how this name came about, but just calling the fly A Creation seemed too boring. The French touch was a bit better.
It is just one of these Créations that sometimes come from my vise. I crank out these strange flies every now and then when I tie flies. I get an idea and follow some strange notion. I dig through piles of materials and tie up a handful of slightly different flies, each one better than the previous one, but none of them really good. This way I have churned out piles of useless flies over the years, many of them even found their way to my flybox and from there to the water. But typically they never wind up on the tippet not to say in the mouth of a fish.

Winter fly
But on occasion a creation, which I actually have confidence in, will see the light of day. That was the case with this little bugger. I wanted something for my winter fishing for sea run brownies. I have two techniques for these fish, which are scarce and difficult when the water is really cold.

	Typical fjord sea trout  Martin Joergensen
	Happy me  Martin Joergensen
	In a loop  Martin Joergensen

One is to fish as I always do on the locations that I usually fish. This tactic can work well even though it is far from as successful in the winter as it is in other seasons—particularly in the spring and autumn. These trips will mostly be to the outer coasts, and I will fish fairly shallow water over sand, seaweed and stones and use my usual bunch of tan, grey and relatively naturally looking flies.

Fjord fishing
My other way of catching winter sea trout is to fish in the fjords. During the winter fish will gather in the fjords and estuaries to prepare for their spawning run up the streams. But due to the lack of salt tolerance in the fish in cold water, even the non-spawners will go into the fresher water in the fjords. When it becomes really cold they will gather in the deeper parts of the water and wait for warmer weather. While they are schooling in these deep and relatively warm holes, anglers have a good chance of engaging them. And that’s where my second technique comes in play. I reel a sinking line on a reel, add a short leader and a heavy fly and fish deep. I have a clear Airflo WF line that I usually use for this purpose. It’s a seven weight and casts quite well on most of my coastal rods.

Since I try to fish close to the bottom or even on the bottom, I have taken to fishing with bonefish flies in the Crazy Charlie style, which are normally heavy and will fish upside down. I have had some success with these flies, and that was what spawned the idea for Le Création.

Bonefish style
I wanted a bonefish-style fly, as bright as possible but a bit lighter than what I had in my bonefish flybox. The natural choice was to take every bright material I had and build a small Crazy Charlie type of fly. I also wanted some orange in the fly. We Danes are convinced that orange is good in the winter. Alas I dug out some orange flash chenille, a material I already use for one of many sea trout anglers' trusty winter companions, the Glitter Shrimp.

What I wound up with was silver body braid and orange flash chenille for the body, clear pearlescent flash for the wing and some bead chain eyes. All that was held together with orange thread. After a couple of tries I had something going, and I tied up a bunch of the fly you see here.

Ready to catch some fish  Martin Joergensen

	Gotcha!  Martin Joergensen

Upside down  Martin Joergensen

Une Création

1. Tie in the thread mid-hook
2. Tie down body braid and cover all the way to the hook bend-plus a bit
3. Wind thread back to the middle of the hook shank
4. Follow by tight turns of body braid
5. Tie down braid and cut surplus
6. Wind the thread forwards to the middle of the bare piece of shank
7. Tie in bead chain eyes on the top of the shank
8. Bring thread back to the front of the body
9. Tie in orange flash chenille
10. Wind thread forwards to right behind the eyes
11. Take 2-3 turns of chenille behind the eyes
12. Tie chenille down and cut surplus
13. Prepare a small bunch of flash. The tips should just touch the hook point.
14. Tie in under and in front of the eyes
15. Form a large head over the wing butts in front of the eyes
16. Varnish

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