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Ginger Spider
Hook: #12 wet fly.
Thread: Chinese red silk.
Rib: Ginger wire.
Body: Ginger dubbing.
Thorax: Ginger camel
Hackle: Pale ginger dun hen.
Ginger Wire Spider
Hook: Daiichi 1640.
Thread: Fawn.
Body: Ginger UNIWire.
Thorax: Pale fawn dubbing
Hackle: Mid dun hen.
Copper Bead Grayling Bug
Hook: #12 Curved Grub Hook.
Thread : Chinese Red.
Rib: Thin copper wire.
Body: Pheasant tail fibres, with fluo red tag behind thorax.
Thorax: Hares ear fur, with short brown hackle under thorax.
Bead: Copper bead to size.
Peacock Spider
Hook: #12 wet fly.
Thread: Brown.
Body: Heavy winding of copper, covered with peacock herl.
Hackle: Furnace hen.
Reids’s Assassin
Hook: #12 wet fly.
Thread: Black.
Tail: Fluo red wool.
Rib: Fine silver wire.
Body: Black thread.
Thorax: Small ball Black Camel.
Hackle: Black hen.
Camasunary Killer
Hook: #12 wet fly.
Thread: Black.
Tail: Royal Blue Wool.
Rib: Silver oval tinsel.
Body: Back half royal blue wool, front Fluo red wool.
Hackle; Black hen.
A very popular fly for Sea-run trout, loch and in larger sizes for salmon.
A nice selection. I’ve a few Camasunary killers in my spider box already. That Reid’s assassin looks like one that would do wonders here. I don’t have any red fluro wool currently, but on my screen it looks a bright orange, which I do have. The Grayling Bug would do well here too. Hmmm, actually, that entire set would do well. A nice universal set of flies, that would do well whereever there are fish that eat bugs.
[b]Byron,
When I was a more active angler I fished lochs, big and small, rivers to wee burns (small creeks).
At the moment as I do not have my own transport, due to cataract problems.
I am rather restricted to the wee burns in the local area.
Luckily, Tenkara has come to my aid and its minimalism is a help.
It is perfect for very small waters within walking distance.
Jeff,
A little bit of a sore point that red fluo on Reid’s Assassin.
I bought it recently, on the net, as red fluo but it looks more like orange,
to me too. It is from a reputable manufacturer in the USA, what was that
about ‘in the eye of the beholder’. Never mind, a lot of flies with red tags
have versions with orange. They probably work just as well.
I thought I’d mention the wire bodied flies, I have rather taken to them
lately as an alternative to metal beads on spiders. I have never really happy
with that, but on such as the grayling bugs, ok but I like the copper best.
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