Popular Flies

Hook: Hends BL 599 14-12
Body: Primrose Pearsalls Silk
Thorax: Peacock Herl
Hackle: Partridge (tied in reverse) 4/5 turnsHook: Hends BL 599 14-12
Body: Primrose Pearsalls Silk
Thorax: Peacock Herl
Photo and dressing from Jonathan Hoyle
Ceramic Nymph
Hook: KamasanB110 or similar grub hook,from 12 to 18 with smaller heads
Head : 3mm silver tungston bead
Body: lead wire painted white and then coloured with ceramic paint and a coat of U/V resin
Wing: 2x short pieces of crystal flash
Thorax: tan fur picked out
A heavy nymph for fast water.Represents a caddis pupa and has caught hundreds of trout, grayling and sea trout on BGFA waters
Elk Hair Sedge
Hook – Sedge / grub hook sizes 10 to 20
Thread - Black 8/0 uni thread
Body – Fine Synthetic dubbing lightly dubbed to allow silk to show through. Hareline Super Fine No 12 (Pale Morning Dun) has been used
Wing – Bleached Elk Hair
Head – Elk Hair from Wing trimmed and heavily varnished
Notes
Great all round fly that works well as an emerger. If you are fishing fast streamy water the addition of a palmered hackle aids floatability. Good sedge imitation as the light falls and the varnished head creates a big wake when twitched across the surface, but ensure you have a strong tippet as the takes can be violent, great fun.
Dressing and notes from Alan Davies
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Hook: any curved shank such as Partridge or Daiichi sizes from 10 to 20
Thread: red 12/0 Benecchi
Body: fiery brown slf or similar starting very thin and tapering
Wing; white or grey Tiemco wonderwing
Thorax; brown abd purple mixed slf
Hackle: grizzle genetic saddle feather 6 to 8 turns
Has caught trout,grayling and sea trout up to 6.5 lb on Bowland waters and one grilse taken as an Autumn dun spinner
Fly and dressing from Ken Maylor
The Intruder
A popular salmon fly which was taken by a 22.5 ins trout in Upper Danes on the middle Isel beat in early Sept 2016. David Newton was the fortunate angler.
Photograph Chris Heap
Bloa Patterns http://inpursuitofspotties.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/north-country-wet-flies.html