The Melvin Rose

This pattern was originally designed over 10 years ago when fishing lough Melvin.
Francy McGorty of the owner of Melvin house near Garrison asked for a fly to be designed the night we were staying and this was created, with no name we decided to christen it the Melvin Rose after Francy.
This around June time and it worked fantastic in the deeps for the Sonaghan as it turned out to be a fantastic Daphnia pattern.
This version has been tweeked, instead of the usual english partridge we substituted it for the flo yellow french partridge and the pattern still worked well on the loughs.
For anyone wanting to tie this up here is the recipe.

THREAD- red danvilles 7/0
HOOK- size 10 med wt wet hook
TAIL- sunburst pheasant tail
RIB- gold wire
BODY- banana glister
BODY HACKLE- sunburst hackle
UNDER HACKLE- flo orange hackle
OVER HACKLE- flo yellow french partridge
Enjoy.

More of the Pseudo hackle

Last week saw a friend of mine come over to Ireland to have a weeks fly tying tuition and fishing.
As you may know conditions have been bad with very little rain and the rivers not fishing much.

But we managed to get a few fish on the new patterns tied with the Pseudo hackle.
hopefully Adam will be trying these out for grayling this year and i wait to get the results back.

Reports have been coming back that the Pink Pseudo patterns have worked well for the sea trout so production has started on the patterns and will be on the web site next week.

Adam Pritchards week with Lawrence Finney tying and fishing

FISHFEST 2014 Newtownstuart

Irish Lough Flies

The interest in traditional Irish patterns has seen a big revival this year for the Irish loughs,the Inland fisheries board will be doing articles on these this year.
Fly tying classes this year at Finneys flies will be starting at the end of September and traditional flies will be the main feature for these classes with some new designs using the Pseudo hackle.
Classes will be every night  Monday to Friday7 pm to 9pm
Maximum number of students for night is three.
cost per evening is £20.00 per head.
All tools and materials supplied  all flies tied are kept by the students free.
Any one wishing to join the classes should contact 
Lawrence Finney on
07764533823
e mail lawrence.finney@btinternet
Here are some patterns the students will learn to tie.

The blood olive By Lawrence Finney of Finneys Flies

New cascade designs

A new design of Sea Trout and Salmon patterns designed for Uist and Currane.
This is by modifying the barbless heavy weight buzzer hook.
This done by applying pliers to the main body of the hook to slightly straighten it, enabling you to dress patterns such as cascades.
Below is just some tied up for fishing this year.
These can by tied on size 8 or 10 Heavy weight barbless buzzer hooks and really look the business.
If you visit Finneys flies.com these hooks are available on offer for only £7.00 per 100 instead of shop prices of £4.00 per 25 a massive saving for any budding fly tyer.
All the range of hooks from heavy weight  barbed and barbless are also at the same price for the next 2 months.
Enjoy your wrapping.