What have you tied today?

[Wildfisher]

Gold Willie Gunn on a 1" tube. I found this hard to tie and to get the hair evenly distributed.

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[loch coulter]

Two videos of the last four years of flies on this thread.

m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmYeQYfzB1ThDX5TBfIM9poMib7XtA9jI

Sandy,how do i get on this link?, it is not coming up blue on your post or it is maybe my laptops fault. :roll:

                                                              cheers, Tommy.

[Wildfisher]

Here you go Tommy.

Tyed Today Part1

Tyed Today Part2

[loch coulter]

Here you go Tommy.

Tyed Today Part1

Tyed Today Part2

thanks a lot for that.

[Fishtales]

Sandy,how do i get on this link?, it is not coming up blue on your post or it is maybe my laptops fault. :roll:

                                                              cheers, Tommy.

That was because I sent it from my tablet and it is a mobile link  :roll:

Highlight, copy and paste it into the address bar in your browser would have taken you there but Fred has simplified it

[loch coulter]

That was because I sent it from my tablet and it is a mobile link  :roll:

Highlight, copy and paste it into the address bar in your browser would have taken you there but Fred has simplified it

thanks Sandy. :

     

[Wildfisher]

OK, enough salmon patterns - back to the trut(h)  flies.    (See what I did there?  :lol: )

On my local wee river I leave a lot of flies up trees - or to put it another way, anyone can fish the wide open banks of the Don for half a season with the same fly, you have to be a real numpty -  and take my word for it there are plenty of them up there (are you reading  this Noel?  :lol:)  -   to lose any flies at all.

On the wee overgrown Lunan it's a different story, to fish the best pools you are going to lose flies, so you really don't want to be using patterns that take half an hour to tie.

Forget the Kinky Hammers, The Queer Hair Emergeers, the  Detached Brain Duns etc. You want something simple, quick to tie, disposable. These fit the bill and catch fish everywhere - including the Don, but you'll only need to tie one of them if you are fishing there.  :

Hook: size 14 or 16 Kamasan B170 or similar
Body:  Sheer 14/0 olive thread.
Tail: a bunch of natural ginger cock hackle fibers.
Wing: Dun McFlylon or  Aero Wing
Hackle: Natural ginger cock clipped underneath

They take a few minutes to tie. The flush clipped hackle work just as well as a parachute- I find  it's often better and takes fish that have refused a parachute. It may be they are less dense when seen from below.

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[Fishtales]

When I was salmon fishing I used these.



The green bodied brass tube one on the bottom, green metallic selotape and gold twist rib, caught me a salmon and four sea trout in one day on the Earn

[bibio1]

Gold Willie Gunn on a 1" tube. I found this hard to tie and to get the hair evenly distributed.

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Mix the yellow and orange bucktail together then cloak with black. Bucktail goes a long way so you only need a small amount.

Gold and.copper bodies gunns are great in clearing water.

[scoobyscott]

Like that dry Fred will give it a go