Corrib Blood Red Step By Step

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I posted on this dressing a couple of weeks ago. I hope that you can make something of the pattern.

 

Tying Materials

 

Hook: Fulling Mill Competition Heavyweight Size 16

Thread: Pearsall's Gossamer Silk Orange

Half Rib: You can use anything you choose, I demo with fine silver wire.

Dubbing: Claret over olive.

Cheeks: Jungle cock - yes got them into something else

 

Tying Method

 

Step 1: Secure the hook in the vice with point protruding.

 

Step 2: Catch in the orange thread, do not remove tag end but run thread back to bend leaving tag end trailing. Build up a body up to about half way up the hook shank.

 

Step 3: Pull tag end of thread over the top of the body you have formed, catch in and trim waste end.

 

Step 4: Tie in ribbing material.

 

Step 5: Pinch a very small amount of olive seals fur, dub onto thread and wind onto body in 2 or 3 open turns. The dubbing should cover approximately the third quarter of the hook shank. It should be very sparse and the underbody left partially visible.

 

Step 6: Wind rib over dubbing in very tight turns. The dubbing needs to be held as tightly as possible.

 

Step 7: Select 2 small jungle cock feathers and strip away waste material from base of stalk. The feathers should be tied along the hook shank over the dubbing to form cheeks. If you have dubbed correctly then the body should remain slim and the cheeks should lie flat.

 

Step 8: Wind forward with the thread and the cheeks should not move if they do then remove them and start this part of the process again

 

Step 9: Pinch a very small amount of claret seals fur wind onto the thread to form a dubbing rope.

 

Step 10: Make a few turns to form a small thorax.

 

Step by step continues in part 2

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Step 11: whip finish and varnish the head taking care not to let the varnish run into the claret seals fur and the fly is complete.

 

The longer the fly remains in water the redder the body becomes.

[maxwell]

looks like a trout yum yum too me dude...nice tye.....might halfto break down and pick up some JC...

[bulltrout]

a new midge to add to the arsenal...good tie...

[Fishietales]

I seen a guy on kielder water in northumberland using a fly very similar to that, he was slaying the brownies, as it happened he was from Ireland, so it must work with on most large lakes, I think he was fishing the drift, thanks for sharing it with us