[Mike Barrio]

Hi folks

I've had an email from George in Stornoway and I haven't heard of this fly Can anybody help?

Cheers
Mike


Hi Mike

I am looking for help in finding an old style fly called “Synfoil Fry”.
Do you or any of your friends know where I can buy or have them tied.
I am an elderly man living in Stornoway and am down to my last one which I purchased some twenty years ago!!

[Jim Eddie]

Sorry Mike never heard of it. Perhaps George could send a picture and some  of the talented tiers on the forum couls tie some up for him.

 

Jim

[Derek Roxborough]

 I have heard of it I think it may be one of Bucknalls patterns, it should be Googleable on one of the fly databases, one of the early patterns using synthetic foil, If I find a pattern I will post it, easgach 1

[gunner100]

Is this the fly?

http://www.fish4flies.com/Lures/Fry_and_Small_Fish_Patterns/Sinfoil's_Fry

Googled sinfoil not synfoil and came up with the above.

Lyall

[Jim Eddie]

If this is the fly you can buy them here online

http://sportflies.com/Lures___Streamers/Lures-Weighed-Long-Shank/Sinfoils-Fry.html

 

Jim

[Mike Barrio]

Great stuff guys

I put a link to this in my reply to George, so he will hopefully read it and get some flies!

Best wishes
Mike

[adambrain]

It's just like a hairy Okey Dokie

[Peter McCallum]

Pretty sure the origional body was clear plastic powder heated then the hook was dipped in or it may have been the hook heated & dipped like in polythene dip coating..... a bit like dip cote plastic noe which is done cold. nowadays.... epoxy.... hard as nails.... bug bond????

[Hamish Young]

Just back from a few days in Assynt.... 
I used Sinfoils Fry Fly at Bewl Water many years ago, have tied a few in my time too. Think Ken Sinfoil was a bailiff at Bewl, but that's testing the old grey cells a bit.
Great when pin fry are around, simple and effective pattern but largely consigned to the dark corners of most fly boxes these days.
H 

[Derek Roxborough]

The pattern is in Veniards 500 fly patterns
 underbody:- flat silver tinsel
overbody:- polythene strip
throat :- scarlet floss silk
 Back:- the bad side of the brown mallard feather
 Head:- black tying silk
 the illustration shows the lure with eyes,easgach1

[Andy Wren]

Ken sinfoil was indeed bailiff at Bewl ,think the pattern was first brought to the wider public in brian harriss's  Angling magazine ,
At the time it was seen as a variant on Dick walkers poly stickle ,body construction very similar ,silver and red throat with stretched clear polythene .

[Allan Liddle]

Sorry i didn't pick up on this one earlier.

Easgach's nailed the pattern and Hamish / ACW the history.  Devised for pin fry feeding bows.  If you sub the poly srip for epoxy then you get more weight (if you need it) and a different action.  Another variation is to use white floss under the polythene which lets you colour it with a panetone pen.

[Andy Wren]

A varient with a teal blue hackle and painted eyes was a killer for west country estuary sea trout ,back in the day when I worked in a tackle shop I dressed 4 dozen of the fiddly barstewards,still have a couple with the wonky eyes i could not give to the guy that ordered them .
Painted varnish eyes were a dam fiddle
big white blob
smaller yellow blob and the a red dot
3 coats of varnish on top of that , all for peanuts!