Information about Winged flies
Winged wet flies are designed to imitate the adult stage of an insect during brief times when it may be underwater--mayflies which hatch on subsurface rocks and rush to the surface as fully grown adults, caddis fly adults which dive underwater to lay their eggs.
Some pattern have been devised to resemble small fry / baitfish
Alexandra
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Flybox Code:2731
Hook Sizes: 10, 12, 8
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Alexandra, or Lady of the Lake, as it was then called, was introduced some time around 1860. It was re-named in honour of Princess Alexandra.
It was such a popular and successful pattern that its use was literally banned on some waters.
If it regained its popularity it would prove to be a very successful fly, as it still does to a few in the know!
Butcher
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Flybox Code:865
Hook Sizes: 12, 10, 14
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Moon & Jewhurst of Tunbrigde Wells, devised this fly that was originally named 'Moon's fly'. However in 1838 it was renamed 'Butcher' after the their trade-- buchers and the colours of their trade white and blue apron splattered with blood.
It has continued to be a killer for almost 170 years on stillwaters and rivers.
Claret and Mallard
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Flybox Code:1420
Hook Sizes: 10, 12, 14
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Claret and Mallard or Mallard and Claret is probally the finest allround stillwater pattern you will have in your flybox throughout the year, fished as the top dropper or singlerly it certainly kills trout.
Connemara Black
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Flybox Code:1438
Hook Sizes: 10, 12, 14
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
An old classic pattern whose reputation has spread from the loughs of Ireland too stillwaters and rivers throught the world.
Dunkeld
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Flybox Code:1383
Hook Sizes: 10, 12, 14
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Dunkeld was first recorded in 'A Book on Angling' by Francis Francis 1867 and started life as a Salmon fly but soon proved its worth as an attractor pattern for trout on both rivers or stillwaters.
Greenwell's Glory Wet
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Flybox Code:2860
Hook Sizes: 12, 14, 10, 16
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Invicta
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Flybox Code:1431
Hook Sizes: 10, 12, 14
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
A true "classic" flies that has remained a successful firm favourite for almost 150 years.
Still a killer today, fish just below the surface when the sedge are about.
Invicta, Silver
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1433
Hook Sizes: 12
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
This shining variant of James Ogden's original Invicta is a very effective pattern
Kingfisher Butcher
Availablity:
Flybox Code:868
Hook Sizes: 12, 14, 10
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Moon & Jewhurst of Tunbrigde Wells, devised this fly that was originally named 'Moon's fly'. However in 1838 it was renamed 'Butcher' after the their trade-- butchers, the colours of their trade white and blue apron splattered with blood.
It has continued to be a killer for the best part of two centuries on stillwaters and rivers.
March Brown
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Flybox Code:1385
Hook Sizes: 12, 14, 10
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The superb March Brown that is a wonderful old classic that will never stop catching fish.
Peter Ross
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1435
Hook Sizes: 10, 12, 14, 8
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Peter Ross, a store keeper in Killin, Perthshire, developed his namesake "Peter Ross" as a variant of the Teal & Red in the 1890s'.
His creation has become, over the last 100 years, one of the very best lough, lake, stillwater fly patterns.
Works well singlerly and as the point on a team.
Teal & Claret
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Flybox Code:1424
Hook Sizes: 12
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Teal & Claret is one of the excellent "Teal" series that has been tried, tested and proven wet pattern for lochs and rivers for over a century.
Useful when the trout are shrimping
Teal & Green
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Flybox Code:1423
Hook Sizes: 10
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Teal & Green is one of the "Teal" series and is often used when the trout are feeding on shrimp.
A wet pattern used on lochs and rivers for over a century.
Teal, Blue & Silver
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Flybox Code:1422
Hook Sizes: 10, 8, 14
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Of the "Teal" series the Teal, Blue & Silver is the most visible specially when he the water is coloured.
A wet pattern successful on lochs and rivers for over a century. Often used when the trout are feeding of fry.
Bloody Butcher
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Flybox Code:866
Hook Sizes: 10, 12, 14
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Moon & Jewhurst of Tunbrigde Wells, devised this fly that was originally named 'Moon's fly'. However in 1838 it was renamed 'Butcher' after the their trade-- buchers and the colours of their trade white and blue apron splattered with blood.
It has continued to be a killer for almost 170 years on stillwaters and rivers.
Brown Telephone
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2728
Hook Sizes: 10, 12
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Stirring attractor pattern that is a good allround stillwater fly to have in your flybox throughout the year
Grouse and Claret
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Flybox Code:2729
Hook Sizes: 10, 12, 14
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
The Grouse and Claret is a fine allround stillwater wet fly to have in your flybox throughout the year, fished as the top dropper or singlerly it certainly kills trout.
Invicta, Pearly
Availablity:
Flybox Code:1428
Hook Sizes: 10, 12, 14
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
This attractor variant of James Ogden's original Invicta is a very effective pattern
Olive Dun Wet
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2861
Hook Sizes: 12, 14
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Adapted from the classic to become a splendidly lavish pattern in its own right.
Pearly Yellow Wickham's
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2730
Hook Sizes: 10, 12
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
Variant of an old traditional old pattern works today, it is a great caddis/sedge imitation.
Often it is best fished slow and near the surface
Wickham's Fancy Wet
Availablity:
Flybox Code:2862
Hook Sizes: 10, 12, 14
Note: You can alter a hooksize or fly after adding it to your basket.
A splendidly lavish pattern that looks good mouthful to the fish
Allrounder
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Flybox Code:1748
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 Allrounder was created by John Ketley as a general purpose wet fly, and is very often at its best when fished a few inches below the surface with a slow retrieve.
Black Gorbenmac
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Flybox Code:1715
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 Gorbenmac is one of a series of successful variants of the Gorbenmacs', black is always a good standard colour to use throughout the season.
Blae & Black
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Flybox Code:843
Trade Only
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It is a drab looking wet fly but has earnt its place as one of the old greats for it has never lost what it takes to kill trout.
The date of this fly's creation is difficult to pinpoint. Evolved from obscure Scottish origins, it is best fished, like the Black Pennell, early in the season as a top dropper, probably taken for a hatching midge.
Blae & Black
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Flybox Code:2028
Trade Only
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The Blae & Black is an old wet early season pattern, that is a popular as top dropper when fishing a team of three loch style.
Bright Yellow Invicta
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Flybox Code:1533
Trade Only
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Rod Tye works within the traditions and lore’s of Irish fly design dating back to the early 19c.
Whilst many of the flies are original in some sense, they would not claim to be "inventions" in the strictest sense of that term, but rather the combination of the accumulated experience of others and himself, across time. The flies are made according to how they perform, and in many ways, they make themselves.
Campbell's Fancy
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Flybox Code:1117
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 attractor fancy pattern that shows how fly fishing is truly a global sport, UK created fancy teal wet flies in the 1800s and the USA send us back the Campbell's Fancy ,a little beauty and a century later still works well on a summers evening.
Claret and Mallard, varient
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Flybox Code:1419
Trade Only
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This variant of the famous Claret and Mallard or Mallard and Claret is a good allround stillwater pattern to have in your flybox throughout the year, fishes well as the top dropper.
Claret and Mallard,varient
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Flybox Code:1387
Trade Only
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A fantastic fly for Scotish hill lochs. Even without the wing, when it fell of due to the number of mouths it had been in, it still proved it self as a trout catcher.
Coachman
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Flybox Code:2873
Trade Only
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Colonel Fuller
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Flybox Code:1962
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 Colonel Fuller is a brother to the more famous Parmachene Belle both are stimulating attractor patterns.
It is a conspicuous fly that earnt its reputation on rivers and stillwaters on both sides of the atlantic.
Cow Dung
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Flybox Code:870
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 fly dates back into the mists of time to when a fly fisherman first stepped apon a cowpat and disturbed the 'Cow Dung' flies which he recognised as the very same flies as the trout were busily feeding on.
They still are a splended pattern today
Dark Mackerel
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Flybox Code:2133
Trade Only
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Dun Invicta
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Flybox Code:1535
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.
Rod works throughout the season as a Ghillie on Loughs Mask, Carra, Corrib and Conn and is careful to test the flies he designs thoroughly in the field before publishing patterns. Generally, the flies are designed and selected for use according to conditions of light and water clarity rather than the attempt to follow natural patterns of insect hatches.
Dunkeld Fluo Green Tail JC
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Flybox Code:2581
Trade Only
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Dunkeld JC
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Flybox Code:2580
Trade Only
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Dunkeld, Palmered
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Flybox Code:1384
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 Dunkeld started life as a Salmon fly but soon proved its worth as an attractor for trout on rivers or stillwaters. The Palmered Dunkeld is best fished just below the surface.
Fiery Brown
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Flybox Code:1441
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 classic Irish lake fly that has stood the test of time.
Golden Butcher
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Flybox Code:867
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.
Moon & Jewhurst of Tunbrigde Wells, devised this fly that was originally named 'Moon's fly'. However in 1838 it was renamed 'Butcher' after the their trade-- buchers and the colours of their trade white and blue apron splattered with blood.
It has continued to be a killer for almost 170 years on stillwaters and rivers.
Golden Olive
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Flybox Code:1439
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 Golden Olive ia a reliable pattern whose reputation has spread from the loughs of Ireland too stillwaters thoughout the world, especially where lake olives abound.
Golden Olive Gorbenmac
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Flybox Code:1714
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 Golden Olive Gorbenmac is one of a series of successful variants of the Gorbenmacs', the colour 'golden olive' is one of my personal favourites.
Gorbenmac
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Flybox Code:1712
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.
I invented the Gorbenmac trout fly in 1956 while living in South Africa, wher I fished it with great success in the headwaters of the rivers flowing from the Amatola Mountains. At the time I supplied my customers with flies requiring blue mallard wings such as Butchers, Prince Charming and Red Heckham Peckham. I fished the Cata and Wollf rivers for rainbow and brown trout using the Red Heckham Peckham and Prince Charming catching fish on both.
Green Gorbenmac
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Flybox Code:1717
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 Green Gorbenmac is one of a series of successful variants of the Gorbenmacs', its bright colour will often produce surprising results on a hither to quiet day.
Green Invicta
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Flybox Code:1534
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.
Rod Tye works within the traditions and lore’s of Irish fly design dating back to the early 19c.
Whilst many of the flies are original in some sense, they would not claim to be "inventions" in the strictest sense of that term, but rather the combination of the accumulated experience of others and himself, across time. The flies are made according to how they perform, and in many ways, they make themselves.
Green Peter
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Flybox Code:869
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 very successful export from Ireland. Originally created as a top dropper imitating it's name sake -
Phryganea varia , known locally as 'Green Peter'.
Stillwater flyfishermen in the UK have been enthusiastic supports of this fly for the last 40 plus years.
Green Peter
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Flybox Code:1443
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 Green Peter is a highly successful pattern that has crossed the Irish Sea to become a standard in British stillwaters. This dressing is best used as a top dropper.
Green Peter
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Flybox Code:1382
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 Green Peter is a highly successful wet fly that has crossed the Irish Sea to become a great standard in British stillwaters
Grizzly King
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Flybox Code:1391
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.
John Wilson, a Professor at Edinburgh University, created this fly that leapt to success in America.
Hardy's Favourite
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Flybox Code:1039
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.
J J Hardy the founder of Hardy's of Pall Mall, Tackle shop, devised this fancy pattern. It has been widely and variously used with success over the years for river trout and as a loch-fly - fished on the point
Heckham Gorbenmac
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Flybox Code:1711
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 Heckham Gorbenmac is one of originals of the series of successful variants of the Gorbenmacs'.