Information about Hackled flies
Hackled flies are meant to float on the water's surface, imitating all sorts of adult aquatic or terrestrial insects that fall into the water.
The hackle fibres closely mirroring the imprint a real insect would create on the surface film.
Badger and Red
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2810
Hook Sizes: 14, 16
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Use it on a late summers evening when the fly is hatching and some great dry fly sport can be had.
Dark Olive
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2344
Hook Sizes: 14, 16
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There are numerous excellent dry flies which imitate blue-winged olives and this is an outstanding dressing.
Proof is it that it works.
Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear Hackled
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2920
Hook Sizes: 14, 16, 18
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The ever popular GRHE dry hackled will imitate loads of small upwing species. This tying covers a broad spectrum of natural insects that the Trout is "comfortable" with.
It has truly earnt its place in flyboxes all over the world as one of the most successful patterns of all time.
Grey Hen and Greenwells
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2527
Hook Sizes: 16, 14
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The Fly is one of a successful series of "Special River" pattern adapted by Malcolm Anderson loosely from an old Scottish dry called 'Grey Hen & Rusty and the English Greenwell's Glory
Grey Hen and Red
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2526
Hook Sizes: 16, 14
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The Fly is one of a successful series of "Special River" pattern adapted by Malcolm Anderson loosely from an old Scottish dry called 'Grey Hen & Rusty.
Grey Hen and Rusty
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2525
Hook Sizes: 14, 16
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The Fly is one of a successful series of "Special River" pattern adapted by Malcolm Anderson from an old Scottish dry called 'Grey Hen & Rusty.
Griffith's Gnat
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1586
Hook Sizes: 16, 18, 20, 22, 24
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Griffith's Gnat is an extremely versatile fly.
It gives a good working impression of a emerging midge fighting for its freedom.
A definite "must have fly" in ones' flybox around the world!
Griffith's Gnat stands high on the surface of the water; that's the key to its success. The tips of the hackle barbs must leave tiny footprints on the surface of the water mimicing to those created by the legs of a real insect.
Hawthorne
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2531
Hook Sizes: 12
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On sunny spring days, hawthorn flies flit along the hedgerows and among low bushes; and if there is a good breeze, particularly on exposed upland streams and lakes, very many of these large flies end up on the water. These are the first of the terrestrial insects to cause a worthwhile rise.
Iron Blue Dun
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1482
Hook Sizes: 14, 16
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The Iron Blue Dun is a standard hackled classic that has a permanent home in most UK dry flyfishers flyboxes.
It is representative of the male dun and the hatches occur throughout the season. Surprisingly often on poor weather days when there are no other dun to be seen.
Pheasant Tail
Availablity:
Flybox Code:798
Hook Sizes: 12, 14, 16
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No flybox should be without the Pheasant Tail for it is one of the most successful patterns ever to float on a stream, brook or river.
It's appearance suggests to the trout a wide range of appetizing food.
Soldier Palmer
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2719
Hook Sizes: 14, 16
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Originally a very old trout fly, probably first tied in the early 1800’s for Scottish Lochs.
Badger and Yellow
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2530
Hook Sizes: 14, 16
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Use it on a June evening when the fly is hatching and some great dry fly sport can be had.
Black Spider
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2720
Hook Sizes: 14, 16, 18
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This simple and uncomplicated fly seems to represent what the trout wants!
Good fly to have in the flybox for when the trout are smutting.
Border Greenwells
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2529
Hook Sizes: 14, 16
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Grey Duster
Availablity:
Flybox Code:875
Hook Sizes: 14, 16, 18
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
A truly remarkable fly that was originally designed as a Stillwater midge imitation and has become a successful versitile pattern throughout the season on rivers, streams and lakes.
This simple and uncomplicated fly seems to represent what the trout wants!
No flyfisherman's flybox should be without a Grey Duster, weither on a river or stillwater.
Grey Hen and Yellow
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2528
Hook Sizes: 14, 16
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The Fly is one of a successful series of "Special River" pattern adapted by Malcolm Anderson loosely from an old Scottish dry called 'Grey Hen & Rusty.
Hatching Olive
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2343
Hook Sizes: 14, 16
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Olives hatches begin as early as February and continue until November.
The hatch may start around middle of the day, dull drizzly days are often the most productive.
Watch out for the clouds of olives, usually on the quieter parts of the water - there the wary trout will be enjoying the feast.
Loch Ordie
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2809
Hook Sizes: 10
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Originally used in larger sizes as a Scottish dapping fly for both brown trout and sea-trout, the Loch Ordie (or "Wee Loch Ordie" as it is sometimes known) can be used both as a dry fly or as a wet fly on a traditional loch-style multi-fly rig.
Tends to be good as a bob-fly in this latter style when fishing a fairly heavy wave from a drifting boat.
Olive Skater
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2923
Hook Sizes: 10, 12, 14
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The Olive Skater, chases and scurries across the water stimulating attention.
Adams Hairwing Dun
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2170
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Adams Trude
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1503
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Handy addition to have in ones' flybox when in need of an attractor dry pattern
Arrow Fly
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Flybox Code:982
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A Courtney Williams designed the 'Arrow Fly' as cross between a midge and small green caterpillar with excellent results. Specially on warm summer days when fishing where trees over hang the water.
Badger Hackle
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Flybox Code:979
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The 'basic' variant of the successful Badger series; it floats well and is highly visible,giving an interesting 'foot print' to the trouts eye
Badger Quill Hackle
Availablity:
Flybox Code:987
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The Badge Quill Hackle is a 'modern' varient of a very old dry fly called the 'Badger Quill', that was originally winged.
It floats well and is highly visible, giving an interesting 'foot print' to the trouts eye.
Badger Red Tag
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Flybox Code:981
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The 'red tag' variant of the successful Badger series; it floats well and is highly visible, giving an interesting 'foot print' to the trouts eye
Baetis Comparadun
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Flybox Code:1742
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The Baetis Comparadun is an innotive pattern both in the manner of dressing and it appearance.
The fanned wing gives the trout a appetizing sihouette and the way the body lays on the surface film suggests the moment before the natural would achieve lift off.
Fishes well on both sides of the atlantic.
Baetis Sparkle Dun
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Flybox Code:2059
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The Baetis Sparkle Dun is an excellent choice olives or upwinged flies are on the water, it sits flush on the surface film with the tail representing the empty shuck
Beacon Beige
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Flybox Code:803
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Peter Deane based his fly the Beacon Beige on an earlier pattern 'Beige'. Reputedly renamed after a local hill Culmstock Beacon; he may have linked the names because both the hill and the fly are highly visible.
This simple pattern that sits so proudly on the water has been decieving trout for so long it is a definite must for every flyfishermans' flybox.
Bell's Smut
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1603
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A great little pattern, when the fish are feeding on those small flies, I have found the smut fly the very thing to entice those wily and educated trout, some of the best days spent on the rivers in England have been due to this small but simple fly.
Big Grey
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1118
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Franz's Big Grey is a handy fly though the season.
In the spring it mimics the dark olives later it imitates the March browns
Bouancy works well on rushing streams.
Bird's Stonefly Adult
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2178
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Bird's Stonefly Adult is a variation of Cal's original, both have been created to fish the depths of the rivers bed.
90% of the trouts food is below the surface and this pattern reach down to the depths where often the big boys feed.
Black & White Sparkle Dun
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2060
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The Black & White Sparkle Dun is an excellent choice when gnats and any dark upwinged flies are on the water, it sits flush on the surface film with the tail representing the empty shuck
Black Bi-visible
Availablity:
Flybox Code:830
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The productive talent of E R Hewit spawned the Bi-visible series
A fly that can be seen floating high on roughness of a busy stream ; also visible during the last hour leading to dusk and for the fisherman whose eyes have lost the keen edge of youth.
The Bi-visible is used for dapping when tied on a larger hook.
Black Gnat
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1838
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The Black Gnat is one of the most popular dry flies in the world.
In spring, and again in autumn, black gnats can be seen swarming near the surface. Although the spring and autumn flies are not the same species, they are so similar that for angling purposes we can treat them as one.
For the lake fisher, the black gnat is an insect of the margins, often preferring the shade beneath overhanging trees. Any darkish dry fly of the right size (16 or 18) is usually acceptable provided it is fished on a fine leader.
On rivers and streams, black gnat clouds are frequently densest over the slower sections. Mating pairs are particularly vulnerable in blustery weather and fall to the surface, where the trout are only to pleased to consume them.
Black Joe
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1119
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A good standard general purpose Loch pattern, works well singlerly as an colourful midge and as a top dropper on a team
Blagdon Green Midge
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1045
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Although this pattern was original created to imitated Blagdon reservoirs Green Midges and does so with great effect, it also works very well on other still waters.
As a 'buggy' looking fly, one must never ignore its potential on tree lined and overgrown streams.
Blue Badger
Availablity:
Flybox Code:977
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The 'blue' variant of the successful Badger series; it floats well and is highly visible, giving an interesting 'foot print' to the trouts eye
Blue Damsel
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1031
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This is arguably my No.1 weapon against those infuriating summer - leapers that chase the real ones and the Dragon Flies.
A bit of effort tying this one, but the results can be very dramatic. Often worth fishing with short floating lines ie pick-up and replace often; leave only a few seconds on the water.
Blue Quill
Availablity:
Flybox Code:975
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Created for Devonshire rivers as a variant of the Blue Upright in the early 1900's; still works well on waters throughout the UK both rivers and stillwaters today.
Imitating pale watery dun's; a good floater that stands proud on the water.
Blue Quill Hackle
Availablity:
Flybox Code:985
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A proven standard dry fly over the last century, good representative of pale watery dun.
Presents as a tasty looking morsel when floating high on the surface film.
Excellent general pattern on rivers and can be used with equal success on stillwaters.
Blue Upright (hackled)
Availablity:
Flybox Code:941
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An excellent variant of R S Austin's Blue Upright; although more suitably dressed to be fished as a dry fly for when Iron Blue's or dark oilives are on the water.
Created for Devonshire rivers in the early 1900's; still works well on waters throughout the UK both rivers and stillwaters today.
Blue Winged Hairwing Dun
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2171
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Sit so perfectly in the surface film, creating such a temptation to the wary trout.
Brown Bivisible
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Flybox Code:964
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A fly that can be seen floating high on roughness of a busy stream ; also visible during the last hour leading to dusk and for the fisherman whose eyes have lost the keen edge of youth.
Bruton's Fancy
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1053
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Dr John Brunton (1899) created the Bruton's Fancy for the grayling and trout on his home waters.
Caddis Buck
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Flybox Code:1487
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The Caddis Buck is an interesting mixture somewhat reminiscant of the old Wickham Fancy and and Elk Hair Caddis.
Plenty of movement on the surface film and a good silhouette.
Possibly skater? Always any exciting method.
Caddis Buck Hackled
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Flybox Code:1488
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The Caddis Buck Hackle is an interesting mixture somewhat reminiscant of the old Wickham Fancy and and Elk Hair Caddis, great for skating across on the surface film and a good silhouette.
Capperia
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Flybox Code:1249
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Fish as you would the original sedge pattern , Caperer (often refered to as the Welshman's Button), but with CDC body.
Claret Hackle
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Flybox Code:1047
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This dressing 'Claret Hackle' is as successful on Scottish and Irish Lochs as it is on large English stillwaters as it is on its home waters of New Zealand
Claret Lake Bit
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Flybox Code:2409
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A pattern created as a 'special' for stillwater competitions, and has proved very successfull for competition anglers and one the rest of us fly fishers enjoys the benifits of.
Claret Lighthouse
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Flybox Code:2378
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Developed as a specialist stillwater dry and used with success.
Coch-y-Bobhu Variant
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Flybox Code:1761
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I tie my Coch-y-Bobhu Variant with a tail to aid flotation in faster water - Dan
Comparadun Dark Reddish Brown
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Flybox Code:2222
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Comparadun Light Olive
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Flybox Code:2223
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The Comparadun is probably one of the most widely used patterns in fly fishing, because it catches trout.
The traditional wing shape produce an indistinct silhouette
Conover
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Flybox Code:969
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Walt Dette first tied this fly in 1934 for Scotty Conover.
(Allan Podell)
Dark Hendrikson
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Flybox Code:974
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Roy Steenrod devised the Dark Hendrikson to represent an upwinged dun that were found on his home waters.
Over the years this fly has proved successful, on both sides of the Atlantic, as a general dry pattern.
Deer & Dog
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Flybox Code:1023
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A simple but effective pattern that works!
Its butt hangs teasingly down, like the Klinkhammer, the wing works much like the Elk Hair Caddis's and the body has a similar naturalness to the Hare's Ear.
Detached Body Hawthorn
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Flybox Code:1677
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For centuries fly fisherman have been aware of the value of have this pattern in their flyboxes, specially April to June on windy days.
Doctor
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Flybox Code:1050
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A very important fly for the dry fly fisherman who fishes throughout the season on rivers and stillwaters who at time will be needing a good fly to represent various beetles.
It is suggested that this pattern is probally the best of the flies Reverend Edward Powell created
Dogsbody
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Flybox Code:942
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Harry Powell, the wizard of Usk, created this remarkable general purpose fly in 1924.
A very underrated pattern that works extremely well.
Double Badger
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Flybox Code:929
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The double badger is the best dry fly of the badger series.
Good on fast flowing streams, floats well.
Dun Variant
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Flybox Code:968
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Art devised this variant, initially to imitate the Isonychia hatch. ( Allan Podell)
Dutch Panama
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Flybox Code:1404
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Hans van Klinken created the 'Dutch Panama' , which is a varient of the French Panama, a fast water fly
Elk Hair Caddis
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Flybox Code:1357
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This pattern created originally by Al Troth as a Bass fly has become a standard in the US, Europe and UK as a 'Sedge' imitation for Trout.
If there was only room for one sedge fly pattern in your box this would be a great choice.
Ermine Moth
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Flybox Code:1052
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Reverend Edward Powell created this wonderful pattern as an imitation of light coloured moths; its visual appearance works wonders in the difficult half light and on the tumbling streams.
It is without doubt a deadly killing pattern on various types of waters, a pattern not be left at home.
Explorer
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Flybox Code:1033
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A general purpose fly, that works well on swift waters and at evening time on quiet stillwaters.
Ginger Quill Hackled
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Flybox Code:928
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A very popular dry fly on both gentle chalk streams and faster waters.
As with all quill bodied flies floats extremely well, and is easier to tie for many.
It has worked its magic when the paler flies are on the water for over 150 years.
Green Insect
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Flybox Code:1250
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Excellent hackle pattern for the middle of the day.
Try near overhanging trees and bushes.
Greenwell's Glory Hackled
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Flybox Code:1038
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Greenwell's Glory Hackled is a superb floating pattern. It is without doubt one of the very finest of all general purpose dry flies.
When olive duns or dark olive duns or iron blues, and (even in a larger size) mayfly are on the water , reach into your flybox and tie on this pattern
Grey Fox
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Flybox Code:1356
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A pattern that is at home in flyboxes on both sides of the atlantic, having built up a reputation since its creation in 1935 as good floater.
Also it is easy for the fisherman to see and most importantly- the trout to see and like it.
Grey Fox Variant
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Flybox Code:956
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Originated by Art Flick to imitate the Green Drake.
An excellent floater and ideal in the fading light.
Grey Palmer
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Flybox Code:1066
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Palmers' are reputedly the oldest of British flies Over the centuries they have held there own special place in flyboxes, seeming to represent caterpillars or moths or an interesting morsel to a waiting trout.
Fished wet they are refered to as woolly worms or woolly bears imitating nymphs, shrimps or larvae.
Gujo kebari 1
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Flybox Code:911
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Pattern name: Futsu-kebari (Normal hackle fly)
This is, if anything, dry type fly
that was influenced by the western flies maybe.
The Japanese fly fishing "Tenkara" originated in mountain village and it has handed down as a way of occupational fishing from olden times.
They consist of about 10 foot long fishing rod, fixed taper line, tippet and of course Tenkara Fly.
Tenkara Fly has various patterns, local color in various regions. I think the mountain streams in Japan have varied streams and rapid streams, that's why Tenkara fly is very simple and basically wet fly pattern, then it isn't restricted how to use the flies, unlike the western typed flies.
Gujo kebari 2
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Flybox Code:912
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Pattern name: Futsu-kebari (Normal hackle fly)
This is, if anything, dry type fly
The Japanese fly fishing "Tenkara" originated in mountain village and it has handed down as a way of occupational fishing from olden times.
They consist of about 10 foot long fishing rod, fixed taper line, tippet and of course Tenkara Fly.
Tenkara Fly has various patterns, local color in various regions. I think the mountain streams in Japan have varied streams and rapid streams, that's why Tenkara fly is very simple and basically wet fly pattern, then it isn't restricted how to use the flies, unlike the western typed flies.
Hackled Red Quill
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Flybox Code:1068
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This is an excellent general pattern that imitate nothing in particular but seems to tempt trout that are feeding on various different naturals ranging from Iron blues and many varieties of duns to spinners.
A certain for the flybox.
Hairwing Coachman
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Flybox Code:723
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August is the month when the Elk River in the East Kootnays runs clear and is in perfect dry fly condition! Strong stubby Montana cuts cruise the gin clear water and slash vigorously at the evening fly hatches. A little work is required to get away from the pools near the main highway but the rewards are ample when the cutthroat trout so willingly take your dry fly offering. I prefer a hair wing fly tied with white kip tail for the wing simply because it is easier to see the float of the fly as it bounces through the ripples. As well, those short but very thick cutthroat do not seem to mind this deviation in the least!
Half Stone
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Flybox Code:896
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This pattern started as a wet fly originally, fished as an emerging dun but it has proved to be an excellent fly for the west country rivers and especially the Devonshire streams. It is at its best at the beginning of the season.
Half Stone (Varient)
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Flybox Code:935
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F M Halford created this varient of the 'Half Stone', as a successful dry pattern.
The original pattern was intended to be a Wet fly fished in the tumbling streams of Derbyshires usually at the beginning of the season.
Hassam's Pet
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Flybox Code:1041
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A good dry pattern for both chalk streams and limestone rivers.
The fly was named 'Hassam's Pet' by G E M Skues, a fitting tribute for both an excellent fly and its gifted creator.
Haystack
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Flybox Code:2206
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The Haystack sits enticingly on the surface film. Watch the margins for a cruising trout and cast ahead - great sport.
Herefordshire Alder
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Flybox Code:1737
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The Herefordshire Alder was reputedly devised by Canon C F Eagles to cope with the fast broken waters of the welsh border and Shropshire streams, and it has proved to be a popular pattern on similar type of waters where there are trout.
Hern's Caenis Dry
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Flybox Code:710
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Curse the blighters, but you will need a few of these for summer evenings when the fish will look at nothing else.
Howard's Fancy
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Flybox Code:1602
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About 5 years ago I was asked to tie a dry fly that a customer had seen from a distance, he wasn’t to sure exactly how it looked but after about an hour at the vice with him watching I came up with the fly he wanted, I made a few for him to try and to let me know of any changes to the fly he required, the next week he called to tell me he wanted more flies tied exactly the same as the original, I have now lost count of the number of these flies I have tied, an excellent pattern that has produced a full bag every time I’ve used it.
IMP
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Flybox Code:1054
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H.A. Rolt created this pattern as a loose imitation of the black gnat and best used in the autumn, excellent for trout and grayling.
Improved Golden Stone
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Flybox Code:1936
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The Improved Golden Stone is representative the natural adult stonefly, its bouyancy is improved with the closely palmered hackle on the body and head making it useful when fishing tumbling waters
Improved Sofa Pillow
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Flybox Code:1937
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The Improved Sofa Pillow is representative the natural adult stonefly, its bouyancy is improved with the closely palmered hackle on the body which helps when fished by twitching it across the surface imitating the struggles of the natural
Irresistable
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Flybox Code:1400
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Joe's Irresistable is an ideal fly to use on fast broken waters for its bouyancy is second to none. It works its' attraction as an a tasty looking morsel, an imitation for sedges and occasionally moths.
Irrisistible Adams
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Flybox Code:1738
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Joe Messinger created the Irrisistible series of fast water floaters whose body of deer hair makes them practically unsinkable. Using the 'Adams' hackle and wing, Joe has created the Irrisistible Adams a popular variant.
Jassid
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Flybox Code:1948
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The Jassid is a handy dry fly to have in ones' flybox as it can be used successfully when the trout are feeding on a variety of terrestrial bugs, beetles and gnats.
Kite's Imperial
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Flybox Code:802
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Oliver Kite created this pattern with the enlarged thorax creating a 'silhouette trigger' and it quickly became a 'Standard' as dry river fly.
It has been decieving trout ever since, seeming to resemble many different specie of duns.
Kite's Pale Evening Dun
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Flybox Code:872
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The pale evening dun (watery) is representative of a small number of olives, surwings and duns; which all look very similar to most anglers and luckerly similar to most trout. They are on the water from May to October, hence are a known food to the resident trout.
Very useful fly to have in ones flybox.
Leckford Professor
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Flybox Code:871
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Ernest Mott was river keeper on the River Test and devised this pattern for wary trout on the south of England chalk streams.
It has proved an excellent fly throughout the UK and the States especially for wild trout.
Try it on your local waters you will be pleasantly surprised with the results!
Little Dorrit
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Flybox Code:1222
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The 'Little Dorrit' was developed by Freddie to sit in the surface film and yet be seen even in poor light. Very useful when pale naturals are on the water.
Loch Ordie
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Flybox Code:2342
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Great skating pattern.
A very attractive morsel that scuttles over the water surface certainly creating attention.
Marlow Buzz
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Flybox Code:989
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The Marlow Buzz is one of the older patterns whose origins date back centuries, but don't let that decieve you - this fly works.
Time has proved that its ability as an imitator of various species beetles is still as effective and fruitful to the fly fisherman of today as it was in the days of horsehair fly lines.
Molie
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Flybox Code:1251
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It is a small, simple and effective.
Handy fly to have in ones flybox for when the trout are smutting
Morgan's Essential
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Flybox Code:1207
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Morgan's Essential can be fished singly as a dry fly or as a top dropper tweaked gently along the surface. This has been a great success for stillwater surface fishing. Fished as a top dropper or as a single fly, this has been the find of the last four seasons. It has produced results casting to rising fish or as a small wake fly drawn along the surface.
Mulberry Bumble
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Flybox Code:1028
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The Mulberry (or Claret) Bumble is a successful Derbyshire pattern. This palmered style pattern is a killer specially on hot weather
Neversink Skater
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Flybox Code:970
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Although it looks nothing like a "butterfly" - its originator, Edward Hewitt, said it represented.
Who could argue with his documented success!
Oakham Orange
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Flybox Code:1819
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The Oakham Orange works well as a top dropper, surprisingly effective in bright conditions.
Olive Baetis Sparkle Dun
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Flybox Code:2061
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The Olive Baetis Sparkle Dun is an excellent choice when olives or darker upwinged flies are on the water, it sits flush on the surface film with the tail representing the empty shuck
Olive Lake Bit
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Flybox Code:2408
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A pattern created as a 'special' for stillwater competitions, and has proved very successfull for competition anglers and one the rest of us fly fishers enjoys the benifits of.
Pale Morning Hairwing Dun
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Flybox Code:2172
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Pale Morning Duns usually hatch mid to late morning, ideal for the late rising angler.
Trout can feed ravenously on duns during peak hatches and this pattern can give you a great experience.
Pale Morning Sparkle Dun
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Flybox Code:2058
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The Pale Morning Sparkle Dun is an excellent choice when small sedge or upwinged flies are on the water, it sits flush on the surface film with the tail representing the empty shuck
Pale Watery Dun
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Flybox Code:1018
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George Monkhouse devised this particular dressing to imitate the female spinner of greater spur wing.
This fly pattern can also be used to represent of the light colored mayfly duns and some spinners.
A PWD fly is very popular with the trout, so much so that they have been observed selecting these from scores of other dun.
Palmered Red Tag
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Flybox Code:1190
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The Red Tag is a Tasmanian favourite. This nondecript fly really does catch trout in Tasmania and can be tied to your tippet in the summer months with a high degree of confidence! I use a full palmered hackle on all of my Red Tags (10's, 12's, 14's, and 16's), this increases the floatability and visibility of the fly. On Arthurs Lake we use a Red Tag in the wind lanes when the trout are taking midges, ants, gum beetles and jassids.
Pea and White
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Flybox Code:1247
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It's a 'can see' humpty variant, good for fast water
Pet
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Flybox Code:1064
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C V Hancock's Pet has provided good sport with both tumbling river and stillwater trout.
In different sizes it has proved effective for grayling , sea trout and salmon. Splended little known all rounder.
Pink Trude
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Flybox Code:1736
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Chuck Stranahan created the popular and productiveTrude series, of which the Pink Trude is a variant.
Poly Yarn Hackled Adams
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Flybox Code:2071
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The Poly Yarn Hackled Adams is the newest member of the family
Rat Faced McDougal
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Flybox Code:1941
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The Rat Faced McDougal makes its tasty looking presence known to those hungry trout who only have seconds to decide as it flashes by.
It floats like a cork when bobbing down the brisk excited waters of North America.
Red Badger
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Flybox Code:973
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The red variant of the successful Badger series; it floats well and is highly visible, giving an interesting 'foot print' to the trouts eye
Red Capped Rook
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Flybox Code:2410
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A pattern created as a 'special' for stillwater competitions, and has proved very successfull for competition anglers and one the rest of us fly fishers enjoys the benifits of.
Red Hackle
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Flybox Code:1070
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The 'Red Hackle' is the earliest recorded fly.
A very good all purpose pattern, best used dry, proven record over the last 750 years.
Tie it and try it - be prepared for a good day's fishing; it would not have lasted unless it works.
Red Palmer
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Flybox Code:824
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Red Palmer can used as a dry or wet fly. Great when the trout are smutting on the rivers and streams; also is used with great success as a top dropper on stillwaters.
Red Quill
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Flybox Code:791
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This particular Red Quill as created by Art Flick in 1933, is used to suggest the male dun mayfly ephemerella Subvaria. Following the Quill Gordon in season, this patter fishes well as a dry fly fishing gets into full swing and continues to serve at other times as a good search pattern. It differs from the Hendricksons in hackle feather stem usd for the body.
Red Spinner
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Flybox Code:1065
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A successful spinner pattern whose origins are lost in the mists of time, over the centuries it has lost none of it proven potential. A certainty in a dry fishermans flybox
Red Tag
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Flybox Code:801
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Reputedly the Red Tag came from Worcester about 1850 and was original called the Worcester Gem.
It has proved over the last 150 years to be a classic pattern for both Trout and Grayling.
It is often underrated for it is a good all season trout pattern.
It certainly comes into its own from November to April for Grayling.
Renegade
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Flybox Code:1403
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Very useful pattern to have in ones flybox when on fast flowing and breaking waters.
Great buoyancy and the front white hackle enables good visibility in poor or difficult conditions.
Rio Granda Trude
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Flybox Code:1730
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The Rio Granda Trude is a popular hybrid used successfully as a great buoyant attractor pattern on fast water. It is one of Chuck Stranahan's popular and productive "Trude" series.
Royal Stimulator
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Flybox Code:1733
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The Royal Stimulator is one of a highly successful series of 'Stimulators' created by Randall Kaufmann. They are used successfully as a great buoyant attractor pattern on fast water, sometimes as representative of a sedge, and often as an imitation of a large stonefly.
Royal Trude Coachman
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Flybox Code:1735
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Chuck Stranahan created the popular and productiveTrude series, of which the Royal Trude Coachman is a successful hybrid that is used as a great buoyant attractor pattern on fast water.
S Buoy
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Flybox Code:2407
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A pattern created as a 'special' for stillwater competitions, and has proved very successfull for competition anglers and one the rest of us fly fishers enjoys the benifits of.
Sanctuary
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Flybox Code:1043
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Dr Thomas created this pattern nearly 150 years ago, and it has proved itself worthy of a prime spot in a dry -fly fishermans' flybox season after season.
Sanctuary
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Flybox Code:1063
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Dr Thomas Sanctuary devised this pattern in the 1880's for trout and grayling in the chalk streams of the south of England.
Simmons Attractor
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Flybox Code:773
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I developed this fly in 1986 when I had a group of anglers from Switzerland with me and we were helicopter fishing the mountain rivers of the West Coast of the South Island, NZ. At that time these rivers were quite unspoiled and were rarely fished, so fish were not angler shy.
2nd. January 1986, the weather was very warm, and on the breakfast table I tied up a fly on a number 8 long shank using a lot of materials off the Christmas tree. My friend John Boyles who guided some of my party scoffed at the fly, saying it looked like a "Christmas Tree". He sneakily picked one up from the table and stuck it into his fishing jacket anyway!
The fish were rising steadly to most well presented flies but failed to take anything we offered. John put on the "Christmas Tree" for a joke. Naturally the fish rose and took the fly nicely, the whole moment was captured on video, including the expressions of surprise and humour at "such a dumb fish".
The Fly's great strength was that it floats high and was very visible in fast rivers but to my surprise it works equally well on still water and these days has become the fly of choice for many anglers on lakes and reservoirs.
Simple Simon
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Flybox Code:1069
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General purpose fly, works often when there are no naturals on the water.
A hybrid of a Coch-y-bondhu and a Coachman
Slim Pink
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Flybox Code:1248
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Good for the evenings, the pink body helps as a sight indicator.
Sparkle Black Gnat
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Flybox Code:2228
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The Black Gnat is one of the most popular dry flies in the world.
In spring, and again in autumn, black gnats can be seen swarming near the surface. Although the spring and autumn flies are not the same species, they are so similar that for angling purposes we can treat them as one.
For the lake fisher, the black gnat is an insect of the margins, often preferring the shade beneath overhanging trees. Any darkish dry fly of the right size (16 or 18) is usually acceptable provided it is fished on a fine leader.
On rivers and streams, black gnat clouds are frequently densest over the slower sections. Mating pairs are particularly vulnerable in blustery weather and fall to the surface, where the trout are only to pleased to consume them.
Sparkle Dun
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Flybox Code:2020
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The Sparkle Dun is a general purpose fly from late April onwards.
Standby
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Flybox Code:1601
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On those days when nothing seems to work, you’ve tried everything in the box, but to no avail, you don’t know what the fish want, and if you did they would only start to feed on something else, does this sound familiar? At this point I try the Standby pattern, I designed this fly to represent something or nothing, a fly the fish might fine interesting, I have found it very effective when the fishing slows down but the weather conditions are right for the dry fly, just cast and drift.
Sulphar Comparadun
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Flybox Code:2064
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Bob Nastasi and Al Caucci were fundimental in the development of the distinctive deer wing , that created such an impressive silhouette.
The late summer afternoon to early evening is the time period for the Sulphur mayflies
T Buoy
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Flybox Code:2406
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A pattern created as a 'special' for stillwater competitions, and has proved very successfull for competition anglers and one the rest of us fly fishers enjoys the benifits of.
Terry's Terror
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Flybox Code:829
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Friends, Dr Ceril Terry and Ernest Lock mutual created this pattern that works extremely well in decieving trout; it represents various olive duns yet imitates nothing in particular.
It is used on rivers, on the edge of a ripple on reservoir and also occasionally used by anglers as a wet fly with success.
The Red Tag
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Flybox Code:1032
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The trout love this nondescipt beetle pattern that justkeeps on keeping on catching fish!
Local comment on the Red Tag -
'Place fly over feeding fish - if it refuses - go down a size - if still not taking - go up two sizes - if still not interested - GO HOME!!! '
Thorax Adams
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Flybox Code:2012
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The Thorax Adams is a modern Irish dry fly, an excellent example of a variant of the classic US original Adam .
Tup's Indispensable
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Flybox Code:944
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R S Austin created this excellent pattern in 1900, since that date it has become an indispensable fixture in flyboxes world wide.
Good pattern when pale midge or mayflies are on the water; may also represent light colored mayfly, the pale watery or small spurwing female spinners.
It works just as well on gentle waters as on the rough and tumble of mountain stream.
Turcks Tarantula
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Flybox Code:2057
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The Turcks Tarantula certainly causes a wake!
I love to see a trout slashing at a fly skating over the surface.
Two-Tone Irrisistible
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Flybox Code:1740
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Joe Messinger created the Irrisistible series of fast water floaters whose body of deer hair makes them practically unsinkable. His Two-Tone Irrisistible is an excellent when used as loose likeness of a adult sedge on rough and tumble stream where the trout has little time to study such a tasty looking mouthful.
Wickham's Fancy Hackled
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Flybox Code:2876
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A classic traditional old pattern still works today.
It was originally designed by Dr T.C.Wickham of Winchester, Southern England in the 1880's as a general purpose mayfly up-wing dry fly, designed for the chalk streams of Southern England.