Clutching Despair from the Jaws of Success!
Normally the bugs start to swing up as the line tightens in the current below you, but they just stopped. I was about to try free the line when the snag moved!
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Category: Flies
More Trad Wets
Continuing on my recent attempts to have a few Traditional Wet Flies in my box for the new season I have tied a few more. Wouldn’t claim them to be brilliant but these are the best of the bunch so worth a mention here and I welcome any comments on how to improve my tying. I have to admit I probably don’t have the best winging material to hand and am not very good at getting either the shape or size of the wing either. But hopefully the fish won’t care!
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Not happening
I had one knock on this almost right away but Jim was into his second fish on the Humungous- obviously the pattern to be on. He very kindly came over and gave me one, very similar to ones I have of my own but tied with holographic gold fritz for the body.
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New Year, New Flies
The weather has been appalling, but I am supposed to be heading to the River Teviot on Saturday for the annual Grayling competition ( I am seriously doubting this will happen with all the rain) but needed to get some flies made up to replenish losses, and add to my arsenal.
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Christmas Fly Tying
The guys over on River Clyde Fishing Forum’s have been running a fun fly tying competition where the rule is any fly tied has to be made with at least one item of Christmas decorations. I guess there is plenty of scope given the preponderance of sparkly and tinselly items around at this time of year.
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