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
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
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
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
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
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
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
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
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
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
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
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
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
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
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
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
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
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
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
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
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
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
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
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
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
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Olive Skater, chases and scurries across the water stimulating attention.
Adams Hairwing Dun
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2170
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
Adams Trude
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1503
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
Handy addition to have in ones' flybox when in need of an attractor dry pattern
Arrow Fly
Availablity:
Flybox Code:982
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
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
Availablity:
Flybox Code:979
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
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
Trade Only
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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
Availablity:
Flybox Code:981
Trade Only
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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
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1742
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
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
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2059
Trade Only
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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
Availablity:
Flybox Code:803
Trade Only
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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
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
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
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
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
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
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
Trade Only
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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
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
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
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
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
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
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
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
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
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
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
Trade Only
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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
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
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
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
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
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
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
Trade Only
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Sit so perfectly in the surface film, creating such a temptation to the wary trout.
Brown Bivisible
Availablity:
Flybox Code:964
Trade Only
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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
Trade Only
Note: We can manufacture any design to order, subject to a minimum order size of 12 doz with a typical 3 month lead time.
Dr John Brunton (1899) created the Bruton's Fancy for the grayling and trout on his home waters.
Caddis Buck
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1487
Trade Only
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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
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1488
Trade Only
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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
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1249
Trade Only
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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
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1047
Trade Only
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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
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2409
Trade Only
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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
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2378
Trade Only
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Developed as a specialist stillwater dry and used with success.