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Title: Recent stuff
Post by: mattheweastham on March 02, 2018, 10:07:46 AM
Hi all,
Thought I'd share a few of my recent tyings with you. Nothing new here, you'll have seen it all before I'm sure. Hoping this little lot will do me a job on upland loch and llyns this coming summer.

Little half hog dries - WOIGO butt
(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c93/edenangler/Half_zpsfovlilzn.jpg)

Good old DHEs
(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c93/edenangler/DHE_zpsfh3vuszv.jpg)

My variant on the Connemara Black theme
(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c93/edenangler/CB_zpsyb22ct4g.jpg)

Some weird half hog hopper jobbies
(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c93/edenangler/half%20hoppers_zpsg5eb7yph.jpg)

Small (#14) hogs for fishing dry/dribbled back
(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c93/edenangler/hogs_zpssscmemij.jpg)

A mate dyed me a couple of shades of claret roe....
(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c93/edenangler/muddler_zpsrjou4vn0.jpg)

Finally, a Welsh hill lake pattern - George Barron's 'SAS'
(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c93/edenangler/SAS_zps0mjtyn3g.jpg)

All the best for the coming season lads!
Matt


Title: Re: Recent stuff
Post by: Laxdale on March 02, 2018, 10:35:04 AM
If I was sitting in a boat at Hamanavay, perusing fly boxes during a change of menu, that Connemara Black would be straight on!
Title: Re: Recent stuff
Post by: Lochan_load on March 02, 2018, 10:58:17 AM
A nice variety of patterns there. I could quite happily go fishing with that selection. What do you use for hares ear, is it a mix? Looks spot on 👍🏻
Title: Re: Recent stuff
Post by: mattheweastham on March 02, 2018, 12:37:22 PM
Cheers. The hares ear is actually a blend I made of hare, grey squirrel and fox squirrel, but the darker stuff at the head is a packet mix which I got from Romanian company 'Troutline'. It's called 'black pepper' and I like it a lot.....it gets used for all sorts of stuff!
Matt
Title: Re: Recent stuff
Post by: Lochan_load on March 02, 2018, 12:41:23 PM
I can see why, looks great. Lovely flies!
Title: Re: Recent stuff
Post by: rannoch raider on March 02, 2018, 12:56:16 PM
Absolutely beautiful tying there Matt. The hare's ear patterns are very fishy. Lovely job.
Title: Re: Recent stuff
Post by: Robbie on March 02, 2018, 01:20:09 PM
Cracking flies and lovely tying!
Title: Re: Recent stuff
Post by: Bobfly on March 02, 2018, 01:35:31 PM
Sure fire bunch of flies. Lovely  :D :D
Title: Re: Recent stuff
Post by: johnsd on March 02, 2018, 01:48:48 PM
Nice looking flees :applause
Title: Re: Recent stuff
Post by: Lochan_load on March 02, 2018, 02:28:53 PM
Just been on the troutline website, ordered some of that black pepper and a couple of other things. Looks a good site, if the euro exchange wasn't 1.07 it would be really good value as well  :roll: as it's was is still relatively cheap, cheers
Title: Re: Recent stuff
Post by: pedropete on March 02, 2018, 02:49:06 PM
lovely tying, cracking selection , plenty to choose from.
Title: Re: Recent stuff
Post by: mattheweastham on March 02, 2018, 03:23:27 PM
Quote from: Lochan_load on March 02, 2018, 02:28:53 PM
Just been on the troutline website, ordered some of that black pepper and a couple of other things. Looks a good site, if the euro exchange wasn't 1.07 it would be really good value as well  :roll: as it's was is still relatively cheap, cheers

Aye he's pretty good. I recently needed some magenta seals fur and found some on his site. I wasn't expecting much quality wise but was surprised - really high quality gear. The blended dubbings he does are consistently good stuff too. Defo recommend them.
Matt