{"id":116,"date":"2009-07-12T13:23:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T12:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2009-07-12T13:23:58","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T12:23:58","slug":"black-foam-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/useful-tying-patterns\/black-foam-beetle\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Foam Beetle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>The Black Beetle (Foam Beetle)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Materials required :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\">Wide Gape hooks sizes 12- 16<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\">Black 6\/0 tying thread<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\">Black plastazote (close cell foam)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\">Black cock hackles<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\">Black dubbing (seals fur or substitute<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tying\u00a0 :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tie in thread behind the eye and wind down the shank to approximately  opposite the barb. Cut a slim piece of plastazote (foam) and secure on top of  the shank. Make sure that the foam is a little longer than the hook. This foam  will form the beetle back and make it float.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-117\" title=\"b1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/b1-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"b1\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/b1-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/b1.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dub the seals fur or other dubbing material up the shank to just behind the  eye but remember to leave a little space here to take the foam back and the  hackles which are tied in later.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-118\" title=\"b2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/b2-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"b2\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/b2-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/b2.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tie in a cock hackle just behind the eye on the underside of the hook shank  to form a beard hackle with the fibres pointing down to the hook point. Trim off  the excess. Then tie in another cock hackle on top of the hook with the fibres  pointing forward beyond the eye and trim off the waste.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-119\" title=\"b3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/b3-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"b3\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/b3-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/b3.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bring the foam forward on top of the shank and secure behind the eye . There  should be some foam sticking out and upwards beyond the eye. Trim the excess  foam to form a blunt end.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">b<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-120\" title=\"b4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/b4-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"b4\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/b4-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2009\/07\/b4.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This fly can also be tied as a brown or a green beetle and is very effective  from May onwards as beetles large and small get blown onto both lakes and  rivers. If fish switch onto falling beetles they can become very preoccupied  like they are when they are on caenis and a few beetles in your box will save  the day. It is important to have both small and large beetles.<\/p>\n<p>We  normally find that the beetles work left static. Rises tend to be aggressive and  sometimes the fish just miss altogether as they push the beetle away as they  rise quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Beetle (Foam Beetle) Materials required : Wide Gape hooks sizes 12- 16 Black 6\/0 tying thread Black plastazote (close cell foam) Black cock hackles Black dubbing (seals fur or substitute Tying\u00a0 : Tie in thread behind the eye &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/useful-tying-patterns\/black-foam-beetle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}