The Mayfly Nymph

This is my version of tying up the Mayfly nymph, which has worked well for me over many years.
In a larger size using a deep water nymph hook size 2 or 4 it was tested out for me by a good friend who visited Argentina last year and had quite a few fish using it.
So why not look at the video and have a go at tying 1or 2 up.
Let me know how you get on or if you have any requests on patterns drop me a line and i will see if i can get a video done for you.

Happy wrappings

With the Mayfly season in full swing,request for my polar fritz flies have exceeded my expectations.
They have been working great on all the Loughs especially Mask.
These will also be field tested on Melvin in June as Daphnia patterns and we are sure they will be sucessfull.
Happy Wrapping

The Peachy Gosling

The Sunburst Gosling

The Crimson Gosling

The cock robin dabbler

The Emerald Dabbler

The sheelin spent may

New flies for 2014

With the season well under way in Ireland my fly tying classes has seen some new designs produced for this season.
Two of the new may fly patterns are the CDC corrib green and the CDC corrib Yellow.
The reason for using the cdc is to create two aspects of the fly.
no 1 is the cdc under the partridge creates an air bubble well know to be produced by the dabbler and no 2 if you cast it out you can use the pattern as a dry for rising trout.
Simple but effective,so we are now working on some other patterns and especially on the bibio.
CORRIB GREEN

CORRIB YELLOW

More Pseudo flies

Over the winter period the fly tying classes saw my students tying more Irish patterns using the Pseudo hackle.
This revolutionary material has transformed some of the patterns as well as making it easier for new students to produce some great patterns for the rivers and loughs.
While i was at the BFFI i did a few demonstrations using this material and it has caused a lot of interest in it.
Even in the states guys have e mailed me for the recipes of these patterns.
Unfortunately we only managed to fish late September and October to field test the patterns but this year we are already geared up to hit the Loughs to give them a good field test.
Such as the  Pseudo red arse dabbler a fantastic pattern through the season.

Another pattern is one we use on lough Inagh for the sea trout and salmon the pseudo Dunkeld.

and of course the pseudo Teal blue and silver.

Another pattern that Peter O,Reilly reccomends for May on the Loughs is the Pailsey Pupa so we designed one using the pseudo hackle and this should prove very effective.

Such was the interest in the Pseudo hackle i have now stocked this on the web site in various colours.

The next step is to design some wet daddies using this great material, have a go yourself it is so easy to use and creates a great fly.

PSEUDO DABBLERS

Now the fly tying season is well in, my classes have been concentrating on a new material.
Pseudo hackle, this material has been used widely for crunchers,Diawl bachs and cormorants.
It was a couple of weeks ago that we decided to tie up a range of Dabbler patterns for next year and some interesting patterns have been emerging.
Field testing of these start this weekend and hopefully will produce good results.
To enhance the pattern we have used florescent dyed bronze mallard and florescent dyed pheasant tail to create a hot spot for the fly.
first is the claret dabbler.

next is the black dabbler

now the gold olive dabbler

there are a multitude of patterns as follows enjoy!!

Lauries cdc suspender buzzer

In the past week our fly tying classes got round to tying up buzzer patterns, so it was decided to tie up a suspender type and here are a few we came up with, needless to say they have been working great on the lakes here in Ireland