Information about Terrestrials (ants & beetles) flies
Flies in this category are land dwelling insects that have unfortunately ended up stranded in the water!
Coch-y-bondhu
Availablity:
Flybox Code:800
Hook Sizes: 12, 14
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
As a beetle imitation the Cock-y-bondhu, is certainly one of the most successful.
It is one of the earlist fly's created, it is a simple working pattern and has been a fixture in flyboxes for centuries.
It is a summer fly, but can be successful all season and is a must for the wild trout.
Black & Peacock
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1767
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.
Very good 'sight - fishing' pattern devised to imitate snails around lake margins.
Black Ant
Availablity:
Flybox Code:978
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 terrestrial insect that in the heat of the summer months are occasional seen to fly and swarm; the trout thinks its party time and thanks giving all rolled into one, a rare and brief interlude that a lucky angler may chance upon once in a life time of fly fishing.
Bracken Clock
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1584
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 Broken Clock is a very, very old fly. It is a passable imitation of a beetle, so cast close to overhanging bushes and trees - wait for the fish to find it - and they do!
Bretts' Snail Thong
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1194
Trade Only
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The Snail Thong should be presented about a yard in front of tailing trout, but for spookier fish the fly can be presented well out in front of the fish, safe in the knowledge that it will be sitting up irresistibly in front of them as they swim past. Judging the strike can be difficult because it involves a combination of watching for a swirl on the fly or for the leader to move and a lot of gut feeling as to
whether the fish has the fly.
As far as I can determine, the Thong nymph was first described in Paul Marriner's contribution to The Worlds Best Trout Flies. The secret of the Thong is that it is weighted so that it only just sinks, and as soon as it touches the bottom, or weed near the bottom, the fly rests on its tail of hackle fibres instead of sinking out of sight. Later, I developed the Snail Thong, to more closely resemble an aquatic snail attached to a piece of grass- because snails form a large part of the diet of tailing trout in Tasmania.
Brown Beetle
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1771
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.
Excellent brown beetle imitation for use in the evenings. Floats very well
Caenid Ant Fly
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1192
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.
When I look back through my diary, some of the most amazing fishing we have had, has been either in a caenid hatch or in a flying ant fall. Our caenids and flying ants are very small, about size 18, yet their sheer numbers on the water often brings every trout in the lake up to the top shovelling these tiny morsels down their throats. When every trout in Arthurs Lake is feeding up on top, the numbers and quality of fish is amazing! Sometimes the fish swim upwind 6 or 8 abreast, sip, sip, sipping. The panicked antics from a hooked fish can put down a pod of 20 of his mates, but if you look nearby there will be another pod to target. If you are a good accurate caster, this fishing really does become a turkey shoot, with bags upwards of 30 trout not uncommon. It is nice sometimes to have some easy fishing!!
CDC Ant
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2928
Trade Only
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A buoyant Ant with interesting movement
Deer Hair Beetle
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1727
Trade Only
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Mike's Deer Hair Beetle is a simple but effective representative of a small black beetle. Often a fruitful pattern to use when fishing where there are overhanging trees or shrubs on warm summers days.
Eric's Beetle
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1729
Trade Only
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Eric H Turner created this very underestimated pattern for those hot summer days when all,including the trout, seem to be asleep.
Eric's Beetle is at its best on just such days specially when fished just below the surface.
Grasshopper
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1030
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.
This is a fun fly to tie and fish. Remember when fishing a grasshopper
to make it look real - TWITCH IT ! don't drag it.
Green Beetle
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1770
Trade Only
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A good green beetle imitation that rides low in the water, as does the natural
Lunn's Red Ant
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1027
Trade Only
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"They do not account for many fish in the season because ants are only flying a short time, but after a flight has crossed, which may be as early as July, do not forget to try an Ant.
I consider it to be the surest take of any pattern of any insect."
Major J W Hill author of 'River Keeper'
Madam X
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1935
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 Madam X is an innovative pattern that has proved most successful on many rivers in America
McMurray's Ant
Availablity:
Flybox Code:995
Trade Only
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Ed Sutryn of McMurray , Pennsylvania, created the 'McMurray Ant', a fly that you can fish anytime, anywhere in the world there are ants and trouts.
Its fluorescent hot-spot make a great hi-visibility pattern.
Red Ant
Availablity:
Flybox Code:976
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 terrestrial insect that in the heat of the summer months are occasional seen to fly and swarm; the trout thinks its party time and thanks giving all rolled into one, a rare and brief interlude that a lucky angler may chance upon once in a life time of fly fishing.
Red Ant
Availablity:
Flybox Code:939
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.
On the hot days of summer this pattern is a must in the flybox, ready for those rare days when the ants are thick in the air.
Many fly ants simply crash, others plummet kamikaze style on to the waters suface to the delight of the waiting trout.
Red Eyed Derbyshire Beetle
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1728
Trade Only
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The Red Eyed Derbyshire Beetle was originally devised for fishing those north country streams , where the trout are acustomed to terrestrials dropping from the overhanging tress and shrubs, it is a handy pattern to have when fishing any over grown stream.
Red Huttlecock Snail
Availablity:
Flybox Code:761
Trade Only
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A good fly to have when the trout are on red buzzers and snails.
Snail
Availablity:
Flybox Code:996
Trade Only
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Great mid summer pattern to have in ones flybox for when the trout are feeding on floating snails. Varying in from lentil up to large pea in size, .
Floating line, a long leader and a little patients, watch the line for the take - usually a gentle draw.
Superant
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1751
Trade Only
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Randy's Superant is a very useful summer pattern to have in ones flybox when fishing water whose banks are overgrown, with shrubs, trees or possibly maybe heavy undergrowth, all from which the natural terrestrial ants may fall and become an additional food source for the waiting trout.
The Simmons Snail
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1029
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 Simmons snail came about as a result of a frustrating week fishing Lake Waikarimona on the North Island of NZ during October 1989.
On this occasion large numbers of very big brown trout were feeding on the hugh numbers of snails that seemed to be grazing freshly covered areas of lakeshore. You could tell where the snails were just by the fact that the bottom looked like it had been groomed by a lawn mower.
While I had my fly tying gear with me it seemed the only pattern I could come up with that worked was to bind olive wool on the hook so it looked like a ball. The problem with was that this that it also 'closed up the gape of the hook' , which made setting a hook into the mouth of these fish very hit and miss. I was determined to overcome this problem and it wasn't until the winter Steelhead fishing that the penny dropped. I was tying glo bugs and I thought why not just dye some globug yarn dark colour and tie a normal glo bug. I was sure that would work and of course be the answer to my problem of closing the hook gape up.