This is my everyday mayfly pattern and when tied with a little body yarn trimmed off vertically behind the dark ginger / brown hackle it doubles as a useful highland dun pattern.
Category: Dry
Blue damsel
The Blue Damsel is a longtime development. My mate Graham and I started experimenting with the colours and sizes, etc, many moons ago, after we had been consistently frustrated by these wildly leaping browns taking these bright blue and green version Damsel flies in mid-air. Having played around in the kitchen getting various dyes to … Continue reading Blue damsel
The Pink Bum Grasshopper
Our Pink Bum Grasshopper is a variation on one of Peter Leuver’s Badja hopper series from his book Fur & Feather. Why the pink bum you may well ask? This is my addition after having watched a large number over the season clinging on to the windscreen wiper while driving slowly through rough grassy terrain … Continue reading The Pink Bum Grasshopper
Early morning damsels
Shot on an early summer morning prior to getting out over the water and annoying the wild browns. I know most people tie up their imitations to copy this form. I believe that the fish take many more Damsels and Dragonfly on the wing so to speak. Therefore my pattern is designed to ride very … Continue reading Early morning damsels
The mighty Red Tag
The history of the Red Tag fly makes interesting reading. As I understand it, the original fly pattern was first developed in England as a Grayling wet fly, before the idea of dry (floating) trout flies was introduced. Then around the mid 1800s one of the English fly fishing squires and his gillie were discussing … Continue reading The mighty Red Tag
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