davidriley
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I have tied flies for a long time but when I stopped fly fishing for trout a few years ago, the vice has only been used occasionally and then for the occasional bucktail for pike. Recently a friend of mine started fly fishing and asked me what flies he should use. Immediately the memories of my days with a fly rod returned. They were good times. My passion has always been fishing the wet fly, usually upstream with a team of two North Country spiders flies. If not that then I could be found with a nymph on the end of my line trying to induce all those large trout lurking below. Happy days!
My friend's newly found enthusiasm for fly fishing for trout has somewhat 'whetted' my appetite again for tying. One of my all time favourite flies was the 'Coch-y-Bondhu', a beetle dressing very popular on the lakes and reservoirs in the mountains of Wales. I always favoured an orange floss silk tag, as opposed to the official gold tag. Over the years I have caught a lot of trout on that fly.
To me it lends itself to be converted into a jig fly, so the 'jig Coch-y-Bondhu' is my first offering. However I couldn't resist adding three strands of Krystal flash to the orange tag. I think it improves it, let's hope the fish do too.
I apologise for the quality of the photo, especially as I was rather hoping the peacock herl body would show up. The hackle is taken from a hen furnace.
Tight lines
David
My friend's newly found enthusiasm for fly fishing for trout has somewhat 'whetted' my appetite again for tying. One of my all time favourite flies was the 'Coch-y-Bondhu', a beetle dressing very popular on the lakes and reservoirs in the mountains of Wales. I always favoured an orange floss silk tag, as opposed to the official gold tag. Over the years I have caught a lot of trout on that fly.
To me it lends itself to be converted into a jig fly, so the 'jig Coch-y-Bondhu' is my first offering. However I couldn't resist adding three strands of Krystal flash to the orange tag. I think it improves it, let's hope the fish do too.
I apologise for the quality of the photo, especially as I was rather hoping the peacock herl body would show up. The hackle is taken from a hen furnace.
Tight lines
David
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