What have you tied today?

[Black-Don]

It's a Woolly Bugger with a red head.  I get lots of fish on it although I tie it without a bead. 

'Tis not, it's a " Black Dart ".  :makefun

The photo doesn't show the body and ribbing too well but it is totally individual.
Part of the secret is in the Flashabou dub which is done in a very similar way to dancer type patterns.

[Clan Ford]

'Tis not, it's a " Black Dart ".  :makefun

The photo doesn't show the body and ribbing too well but it is totally individual.
Part of the secret is in the Flashabou dub which is done in a very similar way to dancer type patterns.

Looks just like a wooly bugger to me - I tie mine witha glister dub but a wooly bugger is a wooly bugger

Norm

[Fishtales]

When I first saw it I though I had seen it before but I can't remember where

It looks like a leech pattern with a red bead head, I have seen them with gold. The green one could be taken for a damsel nymph with the bead acting as an attractor.

They should both be good at the start of the season.

Do you fish them on a sinking line or sink and draw on a floater, Don.

[Fishtales]

I had a look around after I typed that last reply. I think the red flashes on the tail of this pattern would compliment the red bead on your fly.

http://www.westcoastflyfishers.com/fly_patterns/beadhead_crystal/beadhead.html

[Black-Don]

O.K., O.K., I have to agree, Damsel, Wooley Bugger, Black Dart, Dancer, Egg Sucking Leech I suppose they're really all variations on a theme.

I like the red flashes on the one you posted Sandy. The one shown has four or five strands of crystal flash which really work well in the water.

Re. fishing styles. Early on, sinking or intermediate will work imitating a small fish, but as you come into the Summer months a floating line worked right into the margins where Damsel nymphs are heading in order to climb onto the reeds should do the trick.

I've also found a fly like this can be worked slow or stripped fast and will be taken as either an imitative pattern or an out and out attractor / lure.


Oh BTW, like your grayling bug Col.  :

Is that a Black Tungsten bead and if so where do you get them ?

[Clan Ford]

You could sting them and wear them round your neck Mark.  Then that would be gay :lol:

Norm

[Ian_M]

Nice looking flies Davy, what kind of hook is that. 

[muddler54]

played about wi some lite bright,  just sneaked it in the thorax, hope it shows up

[Crawhin]

Shows up fine Muddler and nice flee too - good proportions and very tidy.

Ian

[muddler54]

thats a beauty bandy,  its one of my favorite flies, gots some bows on it too,  quite hard to tie
though,its getting the crest curled right,  i get it right at the start then the ribbings turns it round and flattens it out.   i dont suppose it matters that much cos last year my fly was ripped to shreds and still catching, on a bright day too..... keep on bumbling bandy..... mick