Grasshopper Cottage

The Centre for Wild Brown Trout and Salmon Fishing in the West of Ireland

Fly Tying

 

ROY'S TOP TEN FLY SELECTION FOR LOUGH CORRIB

mayfly: mayfly

 

 

 

 

 

 

DUCKFLY EMERGER (March-April) BLAE & BLACK (March-April)

Hook:

Tying silk:

Tag:

Rib:

Body:

Wings:

Thorax:

Hackle:

Size 10-14 Kamasan B160

Black

Flat silver tinsel (tied round the bend)

Silver wire

Black silk

Two white cock hackle tips

Hot orange seal's fur

Two turns of black hen

Hook:

Tying silk:

Rib:

Body:

Hackle:

Wing:

Size 10-14 Partridge L2A

Black

Fine oval silver tinsel

Black floss

Black hen

Starling

CONNEMARA BLACK (All season) SOOTY OLIVE (March-May)

Hook:

Tying silk:

Tag:

Rib:

Tail:

Body:

Hackle:

Wing:

Size 8-14 Partridge L2A

Black

Orange floss

Fine oval silver tinsel

Golden Pheasant topping

Black seal's fur

Black cock or hen with blue jay tied at throat

Bronze mallard

Hook:

Tying silk:

Rib:

Tail:

Body:

Hackle:

Wing:

 

Size 8-14 Kamasan B175

Black or brown

Fine oval gold tinsel

Golden pheasant tippets

Dark olive and brown olive seal's fur mixed in equal parts

Natural black hen

Bronze mallard

GOLDEN OLIVE (April-September) CLARET DABBLER (All season)

Hook:

Tying silk:

Rib:

Tail:

Body:

Hackle:

Wing:

Size 8-12 Partridge L2A

Golden olive or brown

Fine oval gold tinsel

Golden pheasant topping

Golden olive seal's fur

Golden olive or light ginger cock

Bronze mallard

Hook:

Tying silk:

Rib:

Tail:

Body:

Hackle:

Wing:

 

Size 10 Kamasan B830 or Size 8 Partridge L2A

Brown

Fine oval gold tinsel

10 or 12 cock pheasant with tail fibres tied in equal to the length of the hook shank

Claret floss silk or claret seal's fur

A ginger cock palmered with a light claret cock hackle (three turns) at the shoulder

Slips of good quality bronze mallard tied in all round to envelop the whole body and reaching almost to the point of the tail

FRENCH PARTRIDGE MAYFLY (May-July) Guide to tying a RaymondRAYMOND Guide to tying a Raymond [71 kB] (May-September)

Hook:

Tying silk:

Rib:

Tail:

Body:

Body hackle:

Hackle:

Size 10 Kamasan B830 or Size 8-10 Partridge L2A or Size 8-10 Kamasan B175

Brown

Fine oval gold

Four or five fibres of cock pheasant centre tail

Natural raffia, moistened

Short medium-olive cock hackle, palmered

Medium-olive cock hackle rather long in fibre, with a French partridge hackle wound in front

Hook:

Tying silk:

Rib:

Tail:

Body:

Hackle:

Wing:

Size 8-12 Partridge L2A

Brown

Fine oval gold tinsel

Golden pheasant tippets

Pale golden olive seal's fur

Scarlet cock palmered with blue jay at the throat

Hen pheasant secondary, with slips or red, yellow and green swan between them

Guide to tying a RaymondGREEN PETER Guide to tying The Basil [84 kB] (May-September) MALLARD & CLARET (All season)

Hook:

Tying silk:

Rib:

Body:

Hackle:

Wing:

Head hackle:

Size 8-12 Partridge L2A

Brown or black

Fine oval gold tinsel

Green olive seal's fur

Red game palmered and clipped on the tope edge

Four slips of hen pheasant secondary tied in flat on top of the body so as to partly envelop it-boat-wing

Style Red game

Hook:

Tying silk:

Rib:

Body:

Hackle:

Wing:

Size 8-14 Partridge L2A

Black

Fine oval gold tinsel

Claret seal's fur

Claret, black, red-brown or ginger cock, according to preference

Bronze mallard

 

Essential Reading

Trout & Salmon Flies of Ireland
by Peter O'Reilly

Published by Merlin Unwin Books
ISBN 1873674198