The summer is coming to a end soon, but I’m heading out to a river this weekend, so I got myself some Goat yesterday to tie up some sunray shadows. The brown and white are goat while the black overwing is templedog. This is the first time I have tried to tie anything with Goat, but the material feels very good and should make a lot of movement in this fly.
Hook: Partridge Adlington & Hutchinson Blind Eye #4/0
Thread: Sheer 14/0
Body: The Fly Co Seals Fur
Rib: UNI-Mylar 1/16″ Silver, UNI-Frensh Oval Silver
Hackle: Whiting Spey Brown
Wing: Veniard Mallard Duck Bronze Shoulder Large
Got some spey hackle from whiting today and had to give it a testrun. This is the first time I have worked with spey hackle, and it takes some getting used to. I really like the spey style flies and will tie up more of these to get used to using the spey hackle in different situations.
A couple of doubles on Ken Sawada #6 hooks, the claret seal wool with the yellow silk floss rib made a really nice effect. Now, off to fish these!
Just playing around with some new materials I got the other day, I really like this style and should tie up some more for fishing (on smaller hooks – this is a #2/0).
It has been quiet here on the blog for a while: I have been busy with a worktrip to India, and these days I keep stocking up for my go-to patterns for the summers two week trout trip. But: inbetween I get to experiment a bit with classic atlantic salmon flies. I got a big order with turkey, mallard, ara and other good stuff the other day, mostly I will begin with these later in the autumn/winter, but I had to tie up a couple of flies when I opened the package! The plan was to do green highlander, and this is almost there, the green turkey for the married wing was not long enough, so I had to freestyle a bit over the pattern.
A lot to put my fingers on for these two, but from a tying perspective this was a very interesting exercise and I look forward to practicing a lot on this later this year.
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