What have you tied today?

[Lochan_load]

And a black claret

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[lnelson20]

like the jungle bunny and beautifully tied,same body as an old favourite of mine the woodcock and mixed.

Chris.

[Lochan_load]

Cheers, change to a brown/red hackle and it an Aberdeen Angus, another nice fly

[Wildfisher]

John, Paul, George and Ringo

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[Harpo]

They look great Fred, I had a great day on that Perthshire stream one summers day with a pattern like that.

[Wildfisher]

And so easy to tie Stu, takes a minute.

Wrap  down some foam on a B160 size 10 or similar ( wide gape)  ending at the bend with the foam sticking out the back, tie in a hackle at the bend, dub some olive ice dubbing wrap it up to the eye. Palmer the hackle up to the eye and tie it off. Pull the foam over up to the eye to form the shell back and tie off. Blind old buggers like  me add a sighting post. I trim the hackle level underneath so it sits low. The hackle "legs"  stick out the side Could not be simpler.

This is the kind of fly I like these days - simple, effective and disposable.

I'll go do some black ones now using peacock ice dub and black foam.  They will cover me for both black beetles and blow flies.  :

[Wildfisher]

Blow Fly / Bluebottle version with blue tinsel replacing the dubbing

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[Lochan_load]

Really like these Fred, where do you get the foam? Is it hobby craft? 2mm?

[Wildfisher]

Just cheap hobby craft foam off Ebay

[Harpo]

The sight post is essential I find Fred as they sit low in the water, especially in broken water

Will tie some of them up!