paraloop

These patterns a are really fantastic to imitate small Emergers and if you can present them to any fish that will spook easily they can sometimes take a fish as they are patterns that look so realistic with the body of the fly sitting in or under the surface.

I have been using these patterns for some years now  and have found them to be very useful as they  represent the natural insect very well indeed and they can be tied right down to very small sizes.

This fly floats very well and you decide what way you want it to float by setting the hackle at different angles , either in the surface or under it by the way in which it is tied .

Angling Show Dublin

I have a stand at the  angling show in Dublin at the weekend hopefully there will be a crowd there. it is on every year and there is normally big crowds there
I will be be doing a few fly tying exhibitions and meeting a lot of fellow anglers and fly dressers and hopefully pick up some new tips  so it should be good .

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 .

Golden Olive Dabbler

I love experimenting with different styles of fly tying and when the chance arises  I like to have a go.
Some times I could spend a  full day  fiddling around with different materials and feathers  trying to come up with something different there are the odd time when it pays off and a lot of times when you say why did you bother , this is the beauty of fly tying we will always keep trying to get that elusive pattern that does the business.
The dabbler is one of those patterns that you can play around with quite a lot as there are so many different  patterns and styles in the tying of them that the fly allows you to do this  as you can add or take away from it .
Dabbler patterns come in many forms everything  from black claret silver pearly the list goes on and on
It is more than likely the most sought after flies  for Lough fishing  and a good dabbler pattern  will more often than not take a nice trout for the angler .
Some time ago I was given a full skin from a Menolistick cock pheasant from a good friend of mine Seanie Kelleher from County Cork we met up at the game fair this year and he duly obliged and what a thing of beauty it was .
The  skin from this bird  was the biggest from a pheasant that I had ever seen and the colours on the feathers where absolutely beautiful with all the different shades I could only admire it and imagine how I was going to put it to good use ,
And as I love to try and experiment with different materials and colours this fell right into my barrow and I could not wait to try and  use some of the feathers from it .

I used one of the body feathers as an under wing with bronze mallard over the top and came up with this creation