Hook: Blue Heron Spey #1 http://flyhooks.org/blue-heron/spey
Body: Orange Seals Fur
Rib: UNI Mylar #10, Veevus French tinsel (counter-rib)
Hackle: Heron
Throat: Teal
Wing: Mallard
A slight variation of The Carron: with sealsfur in the body.
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Lady Caroline – Blind Eye
- Hook: Partridge Bartleet Blind-Eye #3/0
- Thread: Semperfli 12/0 White
- Eye: Keino Gut
- Tail: Red Golden Pheasant Body Feather
- Rib: UNI-Mylar #10 Gold, UNI-French Twisted Silver Medium
- Body: Berlin Wool 1/3 Dark Olive + 2/3 Dark Brown
- Body Hackle: Heron
- Throat: Red Golden Pheasant Body Feather
- Wings: Bronze Mallard – 2 layers
- Finish: Loon Hard Head Black
My first blind-eye tied for fishing: a Lady Caroline on a large Partridge #3/0 hook, I have never fished this before either, so this will be something to test out once the rivers open again. The gut is artificial gut from Helsinki Spey Clave.
Lady Caroline
- Hook: Alec Jackson 2061 #1.5
- Thread: Semperfli 12/0 White
- Tail: Red Golden Pheasant Body Feather
- Rib: UNI-Mylar #10 Gold, UNI-French Twisted Silver Medium
- Body: Berlin Wool 1/3 Dark Olive + 2/3 Dark Brown
- Body Hackle: Heron
- Throat: Red Golden Pheasant Body Feather
- Wings: Bronze Mallard – 2 layers
- Finish: Loon Hard Head Black
A first for me: the classic Lady Caroline!
I have looked at this for a long time but have been missing the materials to do it properly. The base pattern itself is not difficult, but getting it perfect is another thing: I’ll tie up a batch of these for fishing this winter, maybe experimenting with some sealsfur for body dubbing.
Green Butt Spey
Hook: Daiichi 2052 #1.5
Body: 1/3 Green Sealsfur, 2/3 Black Sealsfur
Rib: Uni-Mylar #10 Silver, Veevus French Tinsel Medium
Throat: Heron
Wing: Mallard Duck Large
Time to start on another box: now it is time to do some spey flies in different combinations.
Blue spey
Hook: Daiichi 2052 #1.5
Body: 1/3 sealsfur summer duck, 2/3 sealsfur black
Rib: UNI-Mylar #10, UNI-French Large
Hackle: Whiting spey blue, duck flank feather
Wing: Mallard Bronze Shoulder large
Finish: Loon Hard Head
Got my hands on some blue spey hackle from whiting earlier this autumn, I’ve only used them on some blue/black shrimp pattern before, but got inspiration from a pattern that turned up on facebook this morning and had to tie this up.
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