Any New Flies Out There.

[DIYBazza 2]

Hi Members,

Not long now until the trout season starts. I try to fish all year round by fishing stocked waters.

I have started tying some new flies for the start of the season but wonder if anyone has heard of any "new" flies, because I love tying something new. You can't beat the feeling of catching a trout on a home made fly.

Anything new (dry, wet, lure). I look forward to hearing from you. DIYBazza.

[hutch6 550]

A good challenge for when the fly tying bench starts a staring contest with you is to pick a fur, a thread and a feather and see if you can get at least three "buggy" looking efforts from them. Some of my best days have been on such things where you're looking you fly box expecting "the fly" to present itself and you think "What harm can a few minutes of fan casting do?", so you stick your "effort" on and WHAM! Must've been a lucky presentation but then another chomp on it and another and another and then Murphy's Law sets in - "If I'd have known this bunch of crap would work I'd have tied at least one other of the same". Lesson learned.

[DIYBazza 2]

I've done that sort of thing before and you wouldn't believe what works (looks like nothing in the fly box) but still does the job. Just really asking about anything "new". I can't afford to buy all the magazines out there, I need to save my money to buy tying materials. Luckily we don't have to buy a rod license in Scotland so that helps. I just like trying new flies. Last year I tried and tied some Snakes, not for the purist but boy do they catch fish.

[hutch6 550]

To be honest, unless it's the Scandinavian "Realist" flies that have been trickling out over the last few years, everything now is just a variant of something that has been around for donkey's.

 

Any traditional wet or dry with a palmer hackle,

Any traditional with a muddler head.

Everything tied in UV reflective crap.

Every dry fly has a deer hair variant.

 

For me you just can't beat slipping a nice bit of peacock herl on a shank from eye to hook bend, then dubbing some black seal fur over that in opposite turns, ribbing with brass wire for a bit of protection and a grisle hackle. Sling it out on some "nervous water" and wait to be smashed to be bits, especially if the wind is pushing onto the surface. Wait for a riffle, chuck it on the riffle and hold on tight. You'll probably get two or three fish per fly before it's a bare hook.

[billybaltic 308]

Sometimes the scruffiest fly in the box just seem's to do the business, i've been tying zig bug's for carp fishing last summer and was really surprised how they were working, worth a try on a dead drift aslong as you keep in touch with the fly.

[MIK 4,756]

1. I dont know about trout flies but most sucessful salmon flies these days seem to be the boars whisker types snaeldas francis types ...I had 11 salmon on a black francis last season and the new intruder style flies seem to be all the rage for this season ....