I have done a lot of fly tying recently and was looking for something a wee bit different to do. I work for EE in my day job and as most people won’t have missed ( in the UK) we have rebranded and launched an LTE data service marketted under the snappy name “4GEE”.
Our colours are Yellow and “Aqua”. Aqua isn’t likely to be a colour that going to be flooding the fly tying materials market ( as with any shade of blue) but I have enough bits and pieces to allow me to do a handful of flies in the Yellow and Blue colour scheme..
So I have tied one of each main fly family, a Lure, a Wet Fly, a Buzzer, an Emerger and a Dry.
Its just for fun but have a look anyway. I imagine the lure ( based on the Yellow Dancer) will catch, the rest might be Ok on there day but I don’t see them being everyday flies! The Shuttlecock is a yellow quill body so as long as the fish ignores the blue in the thorax its got a chance too.
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- The 4GEE collection with the Yellow Dancer based lure in the back.
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- A deer hair Comparadun style dry fly with a blue thorax and blue microwire rib.
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- This has some blue Jay around the collar- its not showing especially well in the picture, and has a blue dyed peacock quill body.
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- A yellow stripped quill body and blue feather fibres mixed with squirrel thorax. 3 Yellow CDC plumes for the wing.
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- Yellow with blue holographic, epoxy buzzer
I imagine they will fool the Rainbows, not too sure about the Brown Trout though. I only got into fly tying recently and have grown to enjoy it. I caught my first couple of trout on a self tied orange fritz lure at Burnhouse last week.
The yellow deer hair comparadun is a great fly (minus the blue) on the Clyde around May for the brownies and less strongly coloured ones do well all season. But I take your point, definitely designed to target daft stockies. Will try them sometime and report back..
This is why flytying is so much fun. Which reminds me I better get tying at the vice again.