Members' Patterns
Click on your chosen fly for picture ( sometimes!) & instructions
Trevor's flatback dry
Trevor's blueflash dry
Trevor's small palmered green dry
Tony's blue sub-surface damsel
Caroline's Pike fly
Derick's Early Season Tiger fly
Glyn's Tarpon fly- lots of them!
| hook | rib | hackle / tail | method |
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| Size 14 Kamersan 752 | mixed claret, ginger & olive dubbing | Black cock hackle for wings and grizzle for thorax. |
Run silk down the hook. wind in dubbing loop. tie in tip end black cock hackle at eye having swept the hackles to tie in point (see picture). Add a grizzle hackle at the eye with just 4/5 turns. Whip finish. |
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| hook | rib | hackle / tail | method |
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| No 16 downeye | black plasticoat | CDC feather. peacock herl blue wonder-wing |
Run thread from eye to bend. Tie in peacock herl
& wind back to eye. |
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Trevor's small palmered green dry
| hook | rib | hackle / tail | method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Size 18 | yellow fine floss | olive hackle |
Run silk down the hook. |
Tony's blue sub-surface damsel
| hook | rib | hackle / tail | method |
|---|---|---|---|
| No 10 longshank | flash mylar | blue nylon feather duster.blue dubbing |
thread over the shank to bend, tie in mylar and lead wire . Wind in lead wire at eye end. Take big bunch of duster fibres and tie in starting at bend end , doudle the fibres over at head and tie in. With just 3 or 4 tourns bring mylar to head and tie in. apply blue dubbing to head and tie off. varish shank for more sparkle if required. |
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| hook | rib | hackle / tail | method |
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| Pike Hook | black silk | 4 orange hackle feathers 3" long good pinch of glitter blue marabou for hackle NB - other colours can be used if you like. |
Tie the thread on to the hook but start 3/4 of
the way down the hook. |
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Derrick's Early Season Tiger fly
| hook | rib | hackle / tail | method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nymph no12 or 14 | orange thread, yellow/orange antron, | yellow floss for tail. orange dyed partridge for hackle | Take thread down to appoint opposite the barb. Catch
in the floss to form the tail with orange antron - must stay straight. Take cotton up the eye & tie in orange & yellow antron for stripy effect along whole thorax. Catch in tip of orange dyed partridge feather and wind to form the hackle. Cast off to form the head. |
| This fly can be used as a dry fly or weighted with copper wire for wet retrieve. |
| hook to suite - say 2/0 or 3/0 |
rib /eye eye- stick ons |
hackle / tail magnum zonker strip colours- black olive orange purple collar hackle - Black tail with red hackle purple- magenta orange -black olive - black also need gold krystal flash |
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