Beaded Sea-Trout Fly

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In a string below ‘the rod tosser’ gave this web site for interesting bead flies -
http://www.acc.umu.se/~widmark/fly/pearl.html
He was certainly right, I was very impressed. So far my attempts using beads have been rather small flies
as can be seen on my website. I was so impressed, I tied up a few wet flies and here is the one I liked the most.

the recipe is quite simple;
Hook: Size 10 PartridgeYK12ST Sedge/Caddis X Long (I like these hooks for Seatrout or small Salmon flies).
Hackle: Conranch Black hen.
Body: Mill Hill Seed Bead, #02059 Crayon Yellow.
Tail: Fibres as hackle.
They are listed as they are tied in, but the hackle is not wound untill the end.
If this fly was to be used, I would probably coat the beads a couple of times with Sally Hansen.

I have tied a few smaller versions in different colours, I will give them a page on the web-site.
Not really my own ideas but I’m only too pleased to copy. By the way, seatrout means sea run browny.

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I’ve added a page in my web-site.
http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/page39.html

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Donald-- Nicely done. Since these flies are more-or-less attractors, you may want to try varying the color of the tail.

For our sea trout (searun cutthroat), a red tail or a yellow tail seem to do much better than other colors. That yellow-bodied fly “needs” a red tail, and the olive bodied fly would do well with a yellow tail. In fact, I’m willing to bet that on my next outing for searun, they will…

Thanks for posting,

Keith