SHREDGE
Anyone know the tying for this fly? I have had an SOS email from a site visitor about it. He found a ref. to it in Breac's Gairloch Guide and is trying to source some for his father. If I can get the tying perhaps some of the commercial tiers will do some for him
Shredge
HOOK : 10-12 standard or sedge hook
THREAD : Primrose
BODY : Light to tobacco-coloured seal's fur produced by mixing 70 per cent cinnamon and 30 per cent yellow seal's fur
RIB : Fine gold wire
WING : Short grey mallard flight feather. A variation is to tie two wings at the sides of the body rather than on top
HACKLE : Pale ginger hen or cinnamon
Fish it as a shrimp, hatching sedge or sedge-pupa.
HTH.
Below is the only picture I could find of the fly. It is scanned from Goddard's Waterside Guide. The tying is from Robert's Dictionary of Trout Flies. They both say it was devised by a Tony Knight. I don't have McKenzie-Philps so can't comment on his tying but the picture shows the hackle at the front of the wings.
I concur with fishtales. It is attributed to a Tony Knight & was used on Rutland & Grafham. It was envisaged as a wet sedge. I think there was some reference to a combined shrimp/sedge imitation but I certainly can not see that relationship. Not an original pattern though, I have similar no named sedge type flies which pre date this one. Just shows that there is really nothing new in patterns & colours.
Tight Lines
That is the style I remember seeing breac. The picture I used has the wings too high but it was the only one I have.
By the look of the picture that one is tyed on a 'Yorkshire Sedge Hook', which I also have some of (I think) :)