Revolutionary might be a bit over the top, perhaps not. This pattern I remember was on most peoples must have list at one time, a new hook was designed with a scale of its own to cater for the trigger point.
I could never tie them, too fussy for my limited skills, so I bought some and those were way too bulky to my eye, attracting only a passing interest from troot. They have gradually disappeared from my fly box, I find over the last couple of seasons I have enough simpler alternatives to easily tempt a troot.
Anyone still rate them, been rescued by them or would never leave home without one.
Mac
I still use them and like you I found the commercial ones far too bulky. Other than on lochs I have kind of lost faith in them over the past few years, but in NZ I still fish them a lot to good effect. Here on the lochs a black klink on a Partridge Klink hook is my favourite I have been using a poly wing version of Wyatt's DHE more and more on rivers - I hate deer hair.
I never use them in the truest sense. I use parachute flies on curved hooks but they are sparse and not heavily dressed. I also tend to favour cdc or snowshoe, which i think are far more effective.
Cheers
Paul
Another vote for klinks (particularly black) as a top loch fly. I do fish them on rivers but find Dirty Polly, DHE and F Fly work better. Remember a few times on the Deveron that I couldn't get rising fish to look at a klink but as soon as I changed to a Dirty Polly they went for it - never remember a reverse of that situation.
I'm not much of a fly tier and hate tying klinks and wouldn't bother if I didn't need a few for the lochs - luckily I still have enough left from last season :)
I fish mainly rivers and I'm liking others are underwhelmed on running water as well , so that I won't be thinking I wish I had that Klink.
Never thought of using them on lochs, would think a black klinkhammer would be useful during a buzzer hatch as well, would it perform better than say a shuttlecock?
Looking around I see the price has dropped in line with cooncil patterns. On lochs would you fish them static, twitched or both?
Mac
Quote from: east wind on March 09, 2013, 12:00:43 PM
would think a black klinkhammer would be useful during a buzzer hatch as well, would it perform better than say a shuttlecock?
I'm sure that's the reason it works well. Don't know if it's better than a shuttlecock, I use it mainly because it's dead easy to spot the wing post.