I spent today at the Invergarry Craft Fair, doing a fly-tying demonstration and selling flees and flee-boxes (Income=£320 thank you very much).
Plenty (20+) of bored angling husbands whose wives were buying organic jewellery, denture-destroying fudge and hand knitted handbags stopped by for a chat.
In view of the locality, most of the flees on offer were traditional loch wets (aye, with wings) and these sods bought none of them as they either tied their own or had boxes stuffed full of wets. They did buy muddlers and buzzers, mayflies and crane flies, dapping flees and other "exotics".
However the majority (15+) maintained that one traditional loch wet was just about always on the cast, taking trout and salmon.
Guesses?
(Sadly, oh so sadly, and how much I wish it had been the case, Peter Ross is not the correct answer!)
Blue Zulu?
Well done on the sales by the way - I like enterprising anglers - good on ya ! :D
Kate maclaren?
Black Pennell.
Nothing as smart as this forum, three guesses and you have the top three.
Fergie wins though. Black Pennel it is.
Had to be something like that. Great fleez one and all! :D
...so not an orange blob then? :whistling
Woo Hoo :lol: where's my prize :D
I nearly said a booby .
Quote from: fergie on December 07, 2013, 09:01:53 PM
where's my prize
Hand tied Black Pennell on the way.
(on receipt of£7.50 handling charge...)
Result :D
Erm wait a minute :? :lol:
That's brilliant , i got out fished on a loch i know really well by a pal that put on only blue Zulu's ! Well done WWF 3 out of 3 ... I'm sticking to sedgehogs in the summer though
the black pennel is a fly that i have not used in years but when you think of it it has everything that modern trout flies try to replicate. orange wing buds, silver rib for the gas in a hatching midge. must give it a good go this year and a kingfisher butcher another fly i caught lots of trout on.
cheers
paul
Being more serious for a moment - the Pennell was the first fly I used, the first I owned and the first I caught a trout on. I suspect I may not be alone there!
The first trout I ever caught on a fly was with a BP aslo my PB was on a BP :-)
The Pennell is one of those flies that I want to do much better with but my inconsistant results using it sees it often relegated to the drying patch on my waistcoat where it remains until I'm uterly desparate for inspirition. It's not a bad relationship I suppose, as it is often in these moments that the Pennell comes in to it's own for me and has saved many a blank.
LOL Otter Spotter.
Bushy Palmer: really? No, I often fall back on it. I fish rivers more than lochs (down more to opportunity than choice I suppose) and I definitely find a Pennell in a smaller size - 16 say - will take fish fairly often :)
First fly I ever caught a fish on was The Boysack White. self tied too. :8) Damn I really am wonderful. :lol:
Quote from: bushy palmer on December 09, 2013, 09:28:50 PM
Erm . . Yes! :D
Just checking ;)
Fred - well, that's clearly self-evident... :D
Quote from: Midgie Hater on December 10, 2013, 03:00:11 PM
Fred - well, that's clearly self-evident... :D
More and more people are starting to realise this. :lol: