What have you tied today?

[corsican dave]

Indeed. Scotland as usual is about 10 years behind the rest of the fishing world.   :lol:   

i'd make that the UK in general and add another 20 years to it. SWFF, coarse fish on the fly, kayaks, big streamers.... can't wait for our scourie trip this year!  :twisted:

[fergie]

These big foam bodied dries are really starting to catch on. The guys who've been to New Zealand seem to rate them quite highly. Has anyone got any patterns that are proven over here they'd like to share ?

I can vouch for freds naomi.  Very effective for all sizes of troot.

[rannoch raider]

Indeed. Scotland as usual is about 10 years behind the rest of the fishing world.   :lol:   I have been using these home and away for many years now. My Naomi  is hard to beat and deadly. I sometimes use big foam cicada patterns which is the design the Naomi is based on. Big dries also don't have to use foam, see SedgeZilla - ElkZilla. What they all need is legs.

I was watching a sea trout video on you tube recently. Some of the venues were small rivers and streams in Denmark. The fly of choice was a dry foam beetle with big dangly rubber legs. It was deadly.
I've searched and found 'Naomi'. I'll be tying a few of them up for a wee shot this year. :lol:

[Wildfisher]

OctaNaomi is better

http://www.wildfisher.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=21746.0
http://www.wildfisher.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=24258.0

[roberth]

Hawthorne fly using my Chernobyl Ant materials.

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[fergie]

I like that.
Im a big fan of foam flees. I bought some foam heather flys still to use them though. They looks like they might do some damage though.

[rannoch raider]

Fingers crossed the weather behaves itself on Friday when I'm hoping to put these chaps in danger of serious harm :lol:

Bleeding Grey Roach on tubes...........

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[corsican dave]

excellent stuff Jim!  I need another big fly box.... :lol: everywhere's still frozen up here

[JimJams]

Found that out with 2 different venues on Sunday Dave.

[rannoch raider]

Another Roach pattern. This time a variant on Nik Bauers 'Dirty Roach' , again, on a tube.

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