Recent stuff

[mattheweastham]

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


Good old DHEs


My variant on the Connemara Black theme


Some weird half hog hopper jobbies


Small (#14) hogs for fishing dry/dribbled back


A mate dyed me a couple of shades of claret roe....


Finally, a Welsh hill lake pattern - George Barron's 'SAS'


All the best for the coming season lads!
Matt

[Laxdale]

If I was sitting in a boat at Hamanavay, perusing fly boxes during a change of menu, that Connemara Black would be straight on!

[Lochan_load]

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 👍🏻

[mattheweastham]

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

[Lochan_load]

I can see why, looks great. Lovely flies!

[rannoch raider]

Absolutely beautiful tying there Matt. The hare's ear patterns are very fishy. Lovely job.

[Robbie]

Cracking flies and lovely tying!

[Bobfly]

Sure fire bunch of flies. Lovely 

[johnsd]

Nice looking flees :applause

[Lochan_load]

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