LOCH STYLE FLIES
DUNKELD VARIANT
(WET FLY OR LOCH STYLE
FLY)
It was the summer of
2000
that I first became involved on English style Loch Style fly fishing
and
slowly I accumulated an arsenal of techniques and flies. I really
enjoy
tying flies and so as I have seen various patterns I have tied them and
tried them. Most have been discarded and just a few have won a place in
my Loch Style fly box - this is one of them.
Although I have never seen a natural of these colours this fly is one of my
top dropper favourite flies.
MATERIALS:
Hook Size - 8 to 14
long
shank
Thread - Black
Tail - Yellow hackle fibres
Rib - Copper wire
Body - Orange
dubbing
Hackle - Orange hackle
Wing - Ring neck pheasant
feather fibres or bronze mallard
A)
- Wind the thread in touching turns to the bend of
the hook.
- Tie in a tail of yellow hackle fibres about as long as the
shank of the hook.
- Tie in a length of copper wire
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B)
- Dub on a cigar shaped body.
- Tie in a hackle just behind the eye of the hook
- ind the silver wire forming 4 or five uniform segments on the
body.
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C)
- Wind the hackle two wraps at the front of the fly
and then Palmer the hackle all the way to the bend of
the hook.
- Whilst holding the hackle with your left hand wind
the copper wire forward locking the Palmered hackle in
and creating five or six segments along the body of the
fly.
- Break the excess copper wire off and trim the excess
hackle off with a blade.
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D)
- Select a clump of the wing hackle fibres and tie
them in on top of the fly. The tips of the wing should
finish above and just behind the back of the hook.
- Build up a neat head of thread.
- Whip finish the thread, trim the thread and varnish
the head.
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