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These are my latest attempts at fly tying . The top two on the left are Claret Bumbles, and the rest are various tyings of my favourite fly , the Bibio, which is supposed to be a representation of the Heather fly. It's origins are Irish, but also works very well on Scottish lochs. On my last visit to Scotland I only took two Bibios (along with lots of other flies) and had a trout on within the first few casts before losing one of them on a very shallow reef. This left just a blue variation which also fished well and better than all the other flies I tried. So this next visit I plan to take quite a few. I'll also make a muddler version .

The tying is quite simple . Hooks size either am size 8 or 10, run fine black silk down the shank, tie in some fine silver tinsel, twist onto the thread a small amount of black seal fur and wind on, followed by a small amount of fluorescent red seal fur, then another patch of black seal fur. Then tie in a small black cock hackle and palmer down the shank, and then secure this by winding the tinsel up the shank. Tie off the tinsel and then tie in another hackle at the head, of black, blue or red, with three turns. Tie off this last hackle and form the head etc.etc. For a less dressed version of the black, I just used the one black hackle with three turns at the head and the rest spread down the body. And the top right fly is a claret bibio, as an experiment, with claret hackle for the body and a black one at the head.

These are less bushy than the ones I tyed last year but I'm more confident that they'll catch.

They look beautiful, and bound to catch , very well made !

Cheers ! I do hope so !

Trevor, they look great. Only a mad fish would turn its nose up at those.

Wal.

Well tied, Santiago. At times less bushy flies do very well and I'm sure these will not disappoint you.

Thanks, I'll report back on how they fish sometime in July when I'm back from Scotland . This visit I'm going with my son to a few really remote lochs near the west coast in the vicinity of the Torridons . I 'm now trying to get fit and lose weight so all the hiking is a tad easier .

Superb, well done

Nicely tied collection Santiago. They should catch you plenty of those wee wild broonies.

Ian wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 12:26 pm Nicely tied collection Santiago. They should catch you plenty of those wee wild broonies.

Cheers , they're not that fussy where we're going and probably haven't seen a fly for several months so hopefully we'll catch. A bit of fluff would probably suffice !