Olive Mayfly

These are superb mayflies when they are tied and are very realistic .
They come in a huge variety of sizes and colours and you can tie everything from the very small olives to the mayfly .they are also very buoyant and the fly its nicely on the surface as there is a pocket of air in the detached body when you have secured it to the hook shank which gives the fly more buoyancy.

I was given some samples by pat Cullen from Avonmore Tackle products  a couple of years ago to see what I thought of them and I really think they are  the business they are very lifelike but also flexible and  don’t break up very  easily . The hackle would go before the body I think and if so it is only a matter of replacing them with new hackles .