The Pennell Variant

I have been asked for this dressing over the last few days sense I posted a picture of this fly. It is a good attractive Lough fly that I generally fish on the point during Duck Fly hatches, saying that I have also taken many fish on it at other times of the year. So here is step by step of how to tie this simple but very effective fly, hope you enjoy it:

Begin by placing a size 10 hook in the vise I used a kamasan B175. Tie on the thread and tie in several Golden pheasant tippet fibers for the tail.

Tie in some orange wire and black flat tinsel for the body 

Wind up the Black tinsel and follow with the orange wire.

Take some fibers from a large grizzle hackle and tie in as a wing,

Wind on some Jungle cock hackle and brush back over the fly and tie off the thread.

This fly is well worth the time tying, a simple but very effective trout fly. I hope you enjoy reading this post and if you have any comments or questions just drop me a line below, also if you would like to see whats coming next and what I am tying for the coming season just sign in and follow us. Thanks for reading.

A Team of Early Season Wet flies for Lough Fishing

The spring for me always brings lots of anticipation and expatiation's for the coming trout season. That first chilly and bumpy ride up across the Lakes of Ireland is a thrilling experience, with the rod made up in the boat and all the new wet flies in my boxes charged and prepared for a long season of trout hunting ahead. It often can be a slow and disappointing start as the trout are still in winter mode around the early part of February, but I have had a few good starts in this month and here is a couple of my trust worthy dressings that could very well make the starting line up this season.

                                                  THE POINT FLY

SLIVER DABBLER

Hook: size 12-10 B175 Kamasan 
Thread: Red twist thread 
Tail: UV polar chenille
Rib: Sliver wire 
Body: Flat sliver tinsel
Body Hackle:  Grizzle cock hackle 
Wing/ Cloak: Light bronze mallard  
Cheek : Split jungle cock feather in center and tie half on each side of the fly 



THE MIDDLE DROPPER
FIERY BROWN DABBLER

Hook: size 12-10 B175 Kamasan 
Thread: olive twist thread
Tail: natural pheasant tail 
Tag: Glo-brite no 8
Rib: Gold wire 
Dubbing: Brown blend dubbing 
Body Hackle: Dark ginger cock hackle
Wing: Bronze mallard 
Cheeks: Sunburst turkey biots  

THE TOP DROPPER 
GRIZZLE BIBIO

Hook: size 12-10 B175 Kamasan 
Thread: Black twist thread 
Tail: Natural golden pheasant tippets
Rib: Sliver wire 
Dubbing: In three parts black/red/black blend dubbing 
Body Hackle: Black and grizzle wound down the body together.
Shoulder Hackle: Jungle cock back feather

I have dozens of good trust worthy lake flies and theses are just three of the one for the early part of the season, I do like to fish these on a fast or slow intermediate line and I strip them back fast which I find is good for attracting follows from hungry trout at this time of the year. It is important though to dabble the fly's on the surface of the lake just before you lift off to recast, this is often the moment when the chasing trout will attack the fly. 
These flies will be used through out the season on different occasions as the sliver dabbler is a good fish catcher all year around; the Fiery dabbler is a good early and late season fly in September it has given me some great bags of fish. The top dropper fly I like it to be a bumble or bushy fly for two reasons, one is it makes good noise to attract fish and secondly it is a good structure of a fly to dabble at the end of a retrieve just like the Duck fly bumble in my eariler post, http://peterdriver.blogspot.ie/2014/02/duck-fly-bumble.html. These flies are worth giving a swim this February and hopefully you will enjoy these dressing as much as I have and with the same success. 
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DUCK FLY BUMBLE

The duck hunting season comes to an end in January but there is another duck season around the corner and these creatures don't go quack. 

The duck fly hatches is one of the first decent feeding frenzies for brown trout on our Loughs. Imitating theses fly's has many forms from buzzers, emergers, slim and small wet fly's to bushy bumbles among many other variations. Personally I like this time of the year and enjoy heading out on the spring waves in search of some good feeding trout in the duck holes of the mid-land lakes. 

Over the next few weeks ill be tying many different dressings to lure the trout this coming spring, some new developments and some old and tested fly's. This Bumble is one of my favorite top dropper fly's and great on the bob just before you lift off the water. 

Hook: size 12-10 B175 Kamasan 

Thread: Black twist thread 

Tail: Hot orange poly-wing teased out

Rib: Hends burnt orange wire 

Dubbing: Orange spectra dubbing

Body Hackle: Soft black cock

Legs: black daddy legs

Wing: Strands of Pearl Krystal flash 

Shoulder Hackle: partridge dyed orange

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