Waterhen Bloa

[zeolite]

An essential river fly for the olives I know. What do you use when you can't get waterhen?

[scotfly]

Waterhen, coot, starling or jackdaw. Won't matter to Mr Trout. His concern will be that it looks like food, not what hackle you've used.

[Highlander]

Water Hen is readily available so why use something else?
Do...so it is a Starling Jackdaw or Coot Bloa.
It aint a Waterhen Bloa
:roll:
Tight Lines

[Highlander]

It aint a Waterhen Bloa but, as Scotfly says, the troot don't know that

So what will we do then?
Just no gie a flee a name
Caught my Trout on a No1 fly, No2 fly wisnae any good so stuck on a No1
Hmmm
Tight lines

[scotfly]

So what will we do then?
Just no gie a flee a name
Caught my Trout on a No1 fly, No2 fly wisnae any good so stuck on a No1
Hmmm
Tight lines

Now, now Highlander, cut us some slack. We'll call it a Waterhen variant. :lol: Kinda like a Kate McLaren variant.... Only different.  :makefun

:roll:Davy, You need glasses second row it is. All Kates, admitadly mostly variants.

[Wildfisher]

I have never caught  anything on the butcher ever since I substituted dyed goose for scarlet ibis..............

I suppose I can't call it the butcher now either. Can anyone think of a new name.

[scotfly]

I suppose I can't call it the butcher now either. Can anyone think of a new name.

Moon fly  :lol:

[Ian_M]

Moon fly  :lol:

Aye, that'll be shining bright   :crap

[scotfly]

Am I the only one who got the double entendre on the Moon fly?  And what's my prize?

Aye, I was a bit surprised no one picked that one up.
Prize? I didn't see Fred mention a prize, have I won?  :makefun

[.D.]

An essential river fly for the olives I know. What do you use when you can't get waterhen?

Great fly though it is, it doesn't work any better than any other olive-ish bodied, grey hackled simple wet fly when the LDO is on.
The upperside of a French/ Red-legged Partridge wing has plenty of nice feathers you could try:




The underside has some paler feathers suitable for paler winged smaller baetids too. Grey hen saddles work OK too. As do lots of other soft grey feathers.

Just don't try to sell any to Highlander as Waterhen Bloas :wink:

.D.