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

THE INAGH BLUE

A new pattern designed for Lough Inagh is the Inagh blue, based on the teal blue and silver this pattern was modified dabbler style.
First reports on this design is promising with three sea trout and numerous brown trout being taken on it on the loughs and rivers.
The following is the step by step on tying this pattern.

STEP 1 Firstly set up a hook in the vice "Kamasan b170 size 10 and tie in the tail of claret pheasant.

STEP 2 next tie in the rib of silver utc wire.

STEP 3 tie in a bunch of silver glister half way up the hook shank.

STEP 4 now tie in the blue angel hair leaving a 2mm gap at the eye of the hook and wind in the rib with 5 turns and secure.

STEP 5 now get your dubbing brush and velcro all the dubbing so it blends in.

STEP 6 wind in a blue guinea under hackle and brush it backwards.

STEP 7 take a slip of bronze mallard and wind it in so it cloaks the blue guinea.

STEP 8 to finish the fly take around 20mm of bronze mallard slip fold in half , place it on top of the hook and tie it in as the cloaked wing, whip finish and apply 3 coats of no 1 clear varnish

 hey presto another pattern for your fly box.

HAPPY WRAPPINGS.

Lawrence Finney

TUNGSTEN BOTTLE TUBES

With the drawing to the end of the game fishing season i decided to go to work on the 12mm tungsten bottle tubes for next year.
These tubes are amazing and sink at an incredible rate, field tested last month on the rivers Mourne and Finn resulted in some great fish to the net and of course safely released.
At the moment i have done 6 designs and hope to get a few more done before spring next year.
These are now available on my web site.
www.finneysflies.com


                                                        SUNRAY SHADOW TUBE

GARY DOG TUBE

ICE MAIDEN TUBE

TAILLED APACHE TUBE

GOLD AND ORANGE TUBE

GREEN HIGHLANDER TUBE

the Peachy telephone fly

A pattern i designed this week will be field tested tomorrow on Lough Melvin,The peachy telephone fly is an off shoot of the peachy bumble.

The use of the flourescent peachy angel hair is amazing and used on several patterns has produced some great results,not only for trout and Salmon but last year it was used on grayling bugs and customers around europe contacted me to obtain this material as it worked so well.

well tomorrow will hopefully see good results, so in the meantime it is back to the studio to produce a few more of these flies for the web site and shop,and also finish off the other  patterns.
http://youtu.be/V_5enVTq2Vk

RESIN SPIDERS

This week saw the production of the resin spiders, field tests with these proved highly successful on the rivers.
Tied on size 14 barbless buzzer hooks the bodies of these spiders are wire and coated with uv resin, ensuring the fly pattern sinks at a good rate.

These can be modified for all coloured wires such as gold, green red you name it,for those who want a better sinking rate you can add a gold bead to the pattern

FABS "FOAM ARSE DABBLERS"

Just finished the new selection of foam arsed dabblers, over at Blithfield foshery 2 weeks ago and they worked a treat.
This will be featured next month in I SHOOT AND FISH on line magazine.

Fished on the top dropper these beauties brought up fish after fish on each drift.

These were even field tested on Mask a week ago and worked fantastic on the drifts.