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Post by macd on Feb 14, 2010 13:39:15 GMT
very nice dave and brian ( i like the chewed remains) for the record the silver shrimp is the work of a very accomplished fly tyer and fisher from Inverness, Graham MacKenzie and dates from around 1970. Seems like there are many, many versions of this all over the country. Collectively they must have lured thousands of fish. I love shrimp flies and the daddy of them all is another Ness pattern- the Black Shrimp (John Cathcart).
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Post by kingfisher on Feb 14, 2010 17:07:36 GMT
Now thats a fly I could fish with some confidence Ross. Looks good and for me - has a wee bit of colour, But I suppose its what the fish like and I'm sure that would do the business for stale Nith fish
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Post by ballingall512 on Feb 14, 2010 18:16:17 GMT
Here is another wee dark fly that has taken fish for me on both the Nith and on the Annick. It's my sparse variation of a baxters babe, tied on a 1/2 inch plastic tube with a medium tungsten cone. body black seals fur with copper rib top wing black squirrel with pearl crystal hair lower wing orange squirrel(very sparse) hackle black cock saddle and a slightly brighter one using orange bucktail with jc cheeks
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Post by sammysalmon on Feb 19, 2010 21:24:31 GMT
Traditional patterns still work. Even if my first fish of the season were kelts they came to a plain stoats tail. I have had many Salmon on this pattern and variants over the years so I still have confidence in them. I guess that having confidence in your flies plays a large part in fishing with patterns you use.
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