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This is my 'go to' PTN, works a treat on still water rainbows feeding on the bottom. Small but deadly. Hook - Kamasan B175 size 12 Thread - UTC Olive Rib - Hot Yellow UTC brassie wire Tail, abdomen, wingcase - 5 or 6 long PT fibres - hen or cock Thorax - Gorse Yellow Seals Fur This is tied as a one piece - trap the tail fibres after catching in the ribbing wire and then wind on the abdomen, trap with thread and then spiral the rib, trap this and break off then dub on the seal's fur and take the fibres over this to form the wing case and tie down before trimming and whip finishing the nymph.

If I can offer a contribution to this, let me know especially if you like crap flies!

These are common here with salmon anglers moving from beat to beat - Rod Clamps

Jayvee, if you have never tied before and cannot get to any classes for a while I suggest you take a read of this from our resident Step Meister - Beginning Fly Tying and this one for the full SP - Begin Here

THis is todays rate of exchange between the Euro and USD Friday, November 9, 2007 1 US Dollar = 0.68233 Euro 1 Euro (EUR) = 1.46556 US Dollar (USD) It used to be the other way around a few years back and makes for us a good time to either buy from the US or to go there as our spending power has risen. and as for the GBP against the USD, well it means less Americans holidaying in the UK! Friday, November 9, 2007 1 US Dollar = 0.47537 British Pound 1 British Pound (GBP) = 2.10364 US Dollar (USD)

Vernille is a much finer form of Chenille and would be ideal for a Streamer type of fly. Nice and compact fibres and a diameter about 3/32nds of an inch, any colour you like. Often mistaken for Suede Chenille as it has a similar appearance but is much finer.

Sometimes you just have to think out of the box, I get all sorts of ribbing about my ideas but if they have never been seen before who is to say that they won't work? We, nowadays, are not limited by available materials as were our counterparts in days of yore when all they had were natural products, we have an endless, ever expanding choice of material so and why should we limit our ideas to those that have ruled in the past? Throw away the rule book and get thinking out of the box!

Here is a little knock up of a detached body Damsel that was made with bits lying around the vice to illustrate how easy it is to replicate the real thing. If I had taken time and selected the correct materials then it would appear more realistic but this serves to illustrate the idea quite well. The body was a CDC plume with the beads slipped into place and a few drops of varnish to lock them up, I let this dry overnight so it was not quite five minutes! You can use any colour of bead to replicate the abdomen of the species found at your fishery. The hook is a Kamasan B175 size 10, a heavy wire hook. The thorax and head are just dark olive spectrablend and the wings are 4 grizzle hackles, I did not bother to trim these as it is not going to be fished. Eyes are made using the headlamp technique I demonstrated elsewhere in the forum. In the pipeline is a spun deer hair Damsel but this is awaiting the kind offer of Laurie Finney who is going to dye some materials in Picric for me, Nice one, Laurie! All in all it looks a reasonable facsimile and with a bit more work could be quite a good fly for the adult Damsel season.

Vice is empty just now, all ongoing swaps are posted out - OK - count me in.

We have the same problem as you guys buying from the USA here in Ireland if you buy from Amazon, they just won't ship to Ireland from the UK but advertise the cameras on their Irish site! So, I ordered the camera, Fuji S9600 c/w 2Gb memory, and had it sent to my mate in Scotland who sent it on to me in Ireland, result - saved 150 Euro over Irish prices and got the camera from Amazon after all. I use it for all my SBSs now as I used to use - wait for it - a Kodak DC280 until it packed in and then I used my wife's Nikon L101 P&S. The Fuji does all I need, I don't need a waterproof camera but might consider it for the future

BBB, CDC is the new Black for you guys, we have been using it for a few years now and appreciate the differing qualities that you can get when you are tying. For dries it beats the hell out of making slip wings and ginking them up as the natural floating qualities are excellent. As to motion as said by SJW, it imparts a different type of motion compared to marabou and synthetics. Uses are endless when you get down to it, breathers on buzzers, wings, hackles, gills, tails, dubbing, you name it, it can be done with CDC, you can even make a lure from it providing you soak it before use and that will give you a pulsating movement that no other material can. See this for example - CDC Puff Poodle Lure. TLs

Copper Flashabou would do the same job mixed in with the seal's fur, I use this a lot as well compared to the Lite Brite as it is shorter strands and easier to mix with the fur.

And they call us Scots cheapskates? You guys are taking it to a new level! Belly button fluff indeed!

I just noticed the poll at the top of the page and voted 10 or more because recently I have been involved in a lot of fly swaps and by doing 12 or more of a fly you soon get it down pat especially if it something you like doing. When I did the Bomber fly for the Province swap I was glad to see the back of it, not because of the tying but the bloody mess of my tying area! The Frawg was a different story as it was a time consuming fly to tie but fun none the less. The most I have tied of a single pattern has been 24 but in 3 different sizes, again a time consuming fly as I had to strip hackles for this and not every hackle was usable resulting in a pile of waste! Practice makes perfect. Never a truer adage to be spoken! Getting away from repetitive flies and into the creative, out the box thinking is where I have the most enjoyment and then trying them out to see if they are catchers or not. Luckily about 60% of my experimental flies are catchers and this is enough to keep you at the vice. I try to get the experimental stuff out to a few people who fish different styles and waters to see if the pattern can become an all rounder or just a species or water type specific fly. An example of this was the Glass Bead Damsel which has become a still water lure for both Browns and Rainbows after extensive trialling. It must have been the same for those tyers of yore when patterns were limited and they would have to have tied hundreds of the same fly because there would not have been the options that we have available to us now. Happy tyings. Folks.

OK - what is this mylar motion stuff that you like? Similar to the likes of crystal hair and the like?

Iconnu, (Writer 1 ) for those who don't know his alter ego the ball is in your court for this

OK - Got the gist of it - round this off with a Fiery Brown Seal's Fur Thorax with some Gold Lite Brite mixed in with it and we end up with this so far

You have to be kidding! I think there must be a guy in a back room somewhere especially employed to think up the most insane product names and get them on the shelves! Incredible!

BBB, what is that nymph in your avatar? It looks as though it could do the business over here on still water rainbows.

Not having a clue as to what you Guys and Gals fish with or for, here is a little bit of vice work that should either catch fish or make them die laughing. Ribbit! Ribbit! Ribbit!

Although the sign says private you would still be able to get a visitor day permit from the association controlling the water Canoeists, Kayakers and anglers do NOT mix across here! Who wants some d*ckhead paddling down your pool when you are trying to catch that elusive brown?

OK - I am a lazy sod at the moment so you will have to make do with this link to our UK site until I get this posted here Bomber Fly UK Style!

Lonefisher, River fishing anywhere in the UK or Ireland is mainly controlled by riparian land owners or fishing associations. Access to the rivers can be had if you purchase a visitors day ticket or weekly ticket, these do not cost much and you do not need guides either. Most still water fishing is privately owned and the same scheme works on them but they can be very crowded at times like bank holidays. In Ireland boats on most of the lochs are private boats and it helps if you know someone with a boat or hires them out. Fishing the likes of the Tweed for Salmon can cost you an arm and a leg, the most famous beat on the Tweed, The Junction Pool (the meeting of the Tweed and Teviot Rivers at Kelso), will cost you an arm and two legs. If I remember rightly, when I lived in the Scottish Borders it used to cost £7.000 a week. There are many small fishing lakes owned and maintained by the fishing associations that are available to visitors, booking in advance is preferable to make sure you have access. Fishing the likes of Loch Leven is done through the Green Hotel. Hope this gives a little insight to fishing the UL and Ireland, much more information can be found surfing the net and through holiday companies. TLs PS - fishing the likes of Rathcon is no problem, phone in advance and pay on the day.

I clipped this from our UK forum. You have all read posts from me blethering about how good this little fishery is, well here are a few views of the fishery. It is 8 1/2 acres of the most well thought out and designed water I have ever fished. Fish quality is second to none due to the fish being conditioned in natural ponds for up to a year before becoming lake inhabitants. Enjoy The only other fishermen apart from myself today Looking out from the fisherman's hut Looking back to the hut A view towards the dam end From the right of the dam Another view back from the spit of land on the right of the above photo and one of the four quality fish I netted today, it might look small in the photo but tipped the scales at 3lb of fighting muscle. All my fish, including the ones I lost and the big b*gger who straightened the hook at the net were all taken on a HE para size 14 on the rise. Great day!

Ladystrange said this on the 18th October- I think you might have had a look at this article that I had written for our UK forum already but explains various extended body methods that can be used when dealing with standard hooks. Extended Body methods There is a method that I have not included in the SBS but one that I am going to put up on our site and in here once I have ironed out all the bugs! LOL! It will give perfect segmented body shapes for any type of aquatic nymph or terrestrial that will allow the tyer to get colouration as close as possible to the original. Watch this space!