[Matt Henderson]

I've been at the vice for a few hours tonight and last night tieing up some heavier flies for a hopeful trip to the don tomorrow.  I got some extra long artic fox yesterday and it makes a huge difference for the longer wings compared to goat or bucktail.

I'm hoping that staying with Goolagers green and black theme and a few red patterns to tempt a kipper might be the way to go.  Can you tell that I've discovered Eumer in the last week. 



for some reason the wing on the one at the top right looks odd but in profile it looks much better. 

Cheers

Matt

[Iain Goolager]

Like them MDH

by the way the flies I used today were;
 1) Yellow & Black
 2) Yellow, Black ,Red & Gold

and nowhere near as fancy as your tyings
Best of luck tomorrow

Iain

[Matt Henderson]

I thought you said green and black was the way forward? 

[Jim Eddie]

Matt

Yes Black and Green is the way forward , just send all those with other colours to me and I'll dispose of them , free of charge   

Seriously those are nice flies and will catch Salmon anywhere.

 

Jim

[Iain Goolager]

Hi mdh,

The ONLY reason I picked Black and Yellow today was because the water was coloured - not heavily coloured, but coloured.

My favourite is still B&G, oh yes! would I have had fish today with B&G? maybe not, then again maybe more?! who knows the secret of the Black Magic Box?

I still think that mobility of materials & placement is far more important than colour combination, just so happens most of my success has been on B&G.

IF I go out tomorrow I'll use Black & Green

Iain

[Barry Robertson]

Some nice flies there Matt 
The top fly on the left is that somekind of sunray?

[Jim Eddie]

Looks like a Sunray Shadow to me Baz 

Anyone seen that video of theSalmon pool in Iceland with the undewater camera filming how the Salmon react to the Sunray , pretty cool

 

Jim

[Iain Goolager]

Negative Jim do you have a link?

Iain

[Matt Henderson]

Some nice flies there Matt 
The top fly on the left is that somekind of sunray?

Baz,

its a sunray shadow tied on a 22mm Eumer teardrop tube.  The crazy looking bits are the peacock herl although I got a tip about how to make it sit nicely so I'll try running it between my finger and thumb before tieing it in to make it sit flat along the wing next time.

Sadly none of them brought me any luck today.

The footage that Jim is talking about is awesome But i can;t remember where to find it..
Matt

[Iain Goolager]

There's always tomorrow Matt.

Iain

[Jay Scott]

Think thats the one is it Jim?

 Really good footage


Jay

[Jim Eddie]

That is the one indeed 

 

Jim