[Dawsons Olive, Variant]

This is a popular fly this time of the year in the UK, in fact it's another anytime fly, this is my version of it, it's slightly different to the original, by the inclusion of seed bead eyes and the omitting of the blue beard hackle

 

Hook: #12 wet

Thread: Olive UNI

Tail: Olive marabou over orange marabou

Body: Bright orange seals fur dubbing over fine lead wire

Wing: Olive marabou

 

This is another variant using orange glister as the dubbing

[Ice Fry]

This little fry pattern works so well this time of the year anywhere there's fry in the water, it's another simple pattern to tie, firstly run a bed of white thread down the hook, then tie in a length of of doubled white metalic wool, run the thread back to the eye and tie in a set of seed bead eyes, behind the eyes tie in a length of green ice yarn, you then wind the ice yarn down the hook to where you tied in the wool take the ice yarn over the back of the wool and wind it back up to the eyes, lastly take the wool and pull it to the eyes to form a back, tie off and trim wool then whip finish in front of the eyes.

 

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[Maggoty Grub]

The Maggoty Grub

 

this little grub is so like the real thing in the water, it's like bait fishing on the fly

 

 

the receipe is simple, 50lb. yellow shock leader wound from the bend to the eye and tied off with red thread, varnish and there you go

[Bloody Buzzer]

Nice buzzer my friend, try tying a one of these, both in olive, red, orange, and black, they work very well any time really, but are best in the cooler monthe or when the waters a bit coloured, although they are from across the pond, I've given them to friends to take when touring the States, and the reports where very good

 

[Winter Brown]

As promised the Waterhen Bloa, I've also add a coulpe of other spiders you might like to try

 

 

 

[Oange Glister Damsell]

I mostly tie them on size 12 or 14 hooks, but as to colours, yes I tie olive, red, blue, brown, yellow and black, in fact I do mixes of colours, they all catch fish very very well, we generally fish them on a slow retieve during the cooler months, and fast stripping during the hotter months

[90 Second Fly]

A bit quick maybe no tying involved, 5 white beads 1 blue bead size 10 buzzer hook, a dab of superglue, deadly fished static under a strike indicator

[Winter Brown]

Terrific fly girl, your tying is spot on, I'd use this fly over here no problem, when I get a minute I'll tie you a traditional pattern called a " Waterhen Bloa " it's very easy but I don't know whether you can source the materials, the dressing is as follows

 

Hook: #14 down eye

Thread: Yellow UTC

Body: A tiny pinch of young mole fur

Hackle: The feather is from the underside of the Moorhens wing

 

Basically you run the thread to just opposite the barb on the hook, you then dub the thread with very fine mole fur and wind it to just before the eye, then tie in the hackle by the tip, then wind on no more than three turns, tie off and whip finish, a very good winter/spring fly,

 

I'll post a photo tomorrow for you

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[Oange Glister Damsell]

Orange Glister Damsel

 

Just a little something we are using here, try it it works on any trout any where, and salmon like it too

 

[Knots..]

I've always used, a tucked blood to the hook for co-polymer and mono, and a grinner or uni on flurocarbon, for the cast itself I use a surgeons to create the tapers as this gives me a drop at every knot should I need it, they've never let me down yet and I've had some big fish on very light leaders, I took a 22lb spring salmon on a 4lb tippet a year gone last april, I was fishing for small brownies, when this thing just hooked itself and took off stripping all the line and 170 yards of backing, the rod I was using at the time was a 6# Hardy Angel, and it stopped the fish, but it still took 45mins to land it, but the knots held okay

[Bluetana]

Just a little variation of a popular fly, I found this winter on the stil waters of the North of England, and the Scottish Borders the trout seemed to be wanting anything that had a blue tinge to it, so this came about, hope you like it

 

[Woodcock And Green]

Would you call this a spider or a wet?

 

If the pattern had stated legs or hackle I would have given it a hackle like this.

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It has a wing that's tied over the back so I assume it's a wet, But that's not the issue, all I was pointing out was that the young lady made no claim to it being the original pattern, she said it was her first attempt at a north country spider, and for a first attempt it was extremely good, the tying and finish were fine, a very good first attempt indeed, and getting the patterns right is something you develop later, I aways encourage new flytyers, it gives them the confidence to continue

 

so what would you call this fly, is it a wet or a spider ?

 

The answer is it's what I want it to be

 

[Woodcock And Green]

LS, to interpret the patterns use this. If it says wing then it needs a paired wing, legs use a wound hackle, hackle use a wound hackle. Or any combination of the three.

The recipe above states wing so it would look like this.

 

Sorry Tango but I beg to differ, Ladystrange, was making a spider pattern of the Woodcock and green, and she has it right, it is a spider pattern, I fish the rivers these flies were originally created for in england, and although the original was dressed with a wing to be fished wet, it is as often the case that a spider pattern fished either on the surface or just in the film produces better takes, and we over here do tend to change patterns to suit conditions, we woud never go river fishing without a variation of every fly we intend to fish

[Hi All]

Hi everyone,

Just like to introduce myself, I'm from Northumberland in the UK, found your site whilst browsing and thought I'd join, you never know we might be able to help each other out as we have a forum over here on the same lines the web address is

http://www.gameangler.co.uk

I'll post regular so speak to you soon

 

By the way this is I

 

 

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