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The Bredbo fly is accredited as being the first Australian designed and made fly and whilst the originator is not known with certainty there is highly persuasive evidence that suggests that it was conceived around 1896 as a grass hopper imitation for targeting fish on the Bredbo river just outside of Cooma NSW. The evidence points to the fly being created by Mr C.R. Burnside and Dr A.J. Brady who along with Howard Joseland are amongst the pioneers of fly fishing for trout in New South Wales .

This variant is a merging of the materials that I use to tie a true Bredbo but configured in much the same way as a Dunkeld which for a long time has been my favourite middle dropper fly for loch style wet fly fishing.

See also Bredbo variant MK2.

Materials

Process

A	Load your bobbin with a spool of yellow or lime floss. Wind the floss in touching turns just past the bend of the hook and then back to the bend of the hook. Understanding hooks Tie in a tail of golden pheasant tippets about as long as the shank of the hook. Tails on flies Wind the floss back to the 95% position and then reverse the direction and wind back down the hook shank to the 85% position. As you wind the floss down the hook shank tie in a length of gold wire Wind the floss back toward the eye of the hook in touching turns stopping at the 85% position. Tie your black thread in at the 85% position locking in place the floss.

B	Trim the floss. Wind the copper wire forward creating six or seven segments along the body of the fly. Body segments Take a couple of wraps of thread to lock the wire into place at the 85% position. Tie in a wing of brown pheasant under feather hackle barbules at the 85% position. The wing should sit above the shank of the hook and extend just beyond the back of the hook.

C	Tie in a hackle between the body of the fly and the eye of the hook. Wet fly hackle The hackle can be tied in by either the tip or the butt depending on the hackle selected. This one is tied in by the tip.

D	Take just one or two full turns of the hackle just behind the eye of the hook and secure it in place with a few wraps of thread. Use a sharp blade remove the excess hackle.

E	Stroke the hackle tips back along the fly and then finish securing the hackle in that position with additional wraps of thread. Build up a neat head of thread. Whip finish the thread, trim the thread and varnish the head.

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