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LOCH STYLE FLIES

ENGLISH WETS

(WET FLY, ATTRACTOR FLY OR LOCH STYLE FLY)

This is more of a class of flies rather than just a fly.
Most English Wet flies of this type were originally tied as imitations of specific species of mayfly.
In my case I use this style of fly when lock style fishing generally as a Top Dropper or Bob (Middle Dropper) fly.





MATERIALS FOR INVICTA:

Thread - Brown
Tail - Yellow cock hackle
Body - Orange dubbing
Ribbing - Fine gold wire
Palmered Hackle - Brown cock
Wing - Brown pheasant wing slips
Beard - Swamp hen feather hackles

MATERIALS FOR ROYAL COACHMAN WET

Thread - Black
Tail - Golden pheasant tippets
Body - Herl / red floss / herl
Ribbing - NA
Palmered Hackle - NA
Wing - Bronze mallard wing slips
Beard - Banded duck under feather slip

FROM THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION YOU CAN WORK OUT THE PATTERNS FOR ENGLISH WET TYPE FLIES TIED TO IMITATE OUR AUSTRALIAN MAYFLIES

BAETIS EMERGERS

TAN #14 Tan tail and body, brown wings and ginger beard.
BROWN #14 Brown / olive tail and body, brown wings and brown beard.
PALE WATERY #14 Light olive / grey tail, grey / olive body, grey wings and light olive beard.
BLUE WINGED OLIVE #14 Olive tail and body, bluish grey wings and grey and olive beard.
GREY #12 Grizzly and brown hackle fibre tail, blue rabbit underfur body, grizzly hackle slip wings and grizzly and brown hackle fibre beard.
BLACK #16 All black.
 

CAENIS EMERGERS

GREY #16 Dress as for an Adams.
BROWN #16 All brown.
 

LEPTOPHLEBIIDAE, ONISCIGASTRIDAE AND KOSCIUSZKO EMERGERS

BLACK SPINNER #12 Charcoal to black.
RED SPINNER #12 Burgundy to red.
LAMBDA DUN #12 Ginger tail, grey body, brown wing and ginger beard.
MARCH BROWN #12 Yellow wool tag, gold/brown rabbit fur body with yellow ribbing, brown pheasant hen wing and partridge hackle beard.
TWILIGHT BEAUTY #12 Dark ginger tail, black body, grey / black wing and ginger beard.
HIGHLAND DUN (Tasmania particularly) #12 Dark brown / olive tail, body and wing with brown and olive hackle beard.
GREEN DRAKE #12 All olive green.
KOSCIUSZKO #12 All cream / beige.

 

Copyright © 2005 Stephen Chatterton / Fish on Fly P/L - All rights reserved.
Last modified: 11-Jun-2008.

 

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