For a long time I have found that John Emerson’s CDC dry fly ( colloquially known as the Shit fly) has been a hugely effective fly for the Browns at Pendreich. I have bought these from John at Uniqueflies because I struggled with tying such small flies and could not get the split wing right. I bought some Semperfli Nano Silk recently and this helps hugely both in terms of how strong it is but how much easier 12/0 thread makes tying such small flies.
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Don’t read this expecting to see much about fishing, as the fishing very much took second place!
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I went off for a couple of hours fishing. There were fish rising all over the loch and on a small brown Klinkhammer I rose a fish but it wasn’t taking. Losing the fly on some snag, I tried again, this time another fish refused and again I was snagged losing a second fly!
I moved down the bank and changed to a small (18) black midge pattern but not before I dropped one in the grass- three flies down!
A bit of a multi-date diary this one. Went out last Wednesday for my first evening session this year. It was a lovely evening even though all told it was just over an hours fishing.
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On the principle that if you can’t beat them, join them I have tied a few Snatchers for my next outing to Pendreich. As far as I can tell these style flies are usually tied in 10-14’s but I have an excessive amount of size 16 Buzzer hooks, and being of the mindset that up at the loch, smaller is better, I have tied these in 16’s. So quite small and fiddly but compared to those Barry ties, he was using size 18 and 20’s for some of his Snatcher fishing!
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