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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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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I have to say I hate these things, and I have no intention of doing a Step By Step on how to tie them, as they are simple. I have been tying some Blobs, Egg Laying Blobs and a Black and Green “Fritz” as I was woefully short of anything of this description last weekend at Swanswater and they seemed to be the only pattern doing the business.
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