Bread fly – wet

 

All sorts of estuary fish respond to bread berley and will take a sinking bread fly suspended or slowly sinking through the feeding zone.

Materials

 

Hook Thread Weight Body and back
Size 6 to 10 stainless White 6/0 Lead wire Polar fibre

Process

 

A
  1. Wind the thread from the 95% position to just before the bend of the hook in touching turns.
  2. Wind the desired amount of lead wire around the middle section of the hook shank. On this fly I have used 15 wraps of .015 lead wire.
  3. Take the thread back up the fly over the lead and then back to the bend of the hook.
  4. Make a dubbing loop at the bend of the hook.

B
  1. Load the dubbing hook up with long strands of polar fibre.

C
  1. Twist the dubbing loop into a rope.

D
  1. Wind the dubbing rope toward the eye of the hook in touching turns stroking back the loose fibres at each wrap of the thread so that the next wrap of the thread doesn't tie any of the fibres down.
  2. Using a piece of "male" Velcro's pick out fibres all the way along the rope.

E
  1. Still using the Velcro stroke the fibres back to form a sleek body.
  2. Build up a neat head of thread, whip finish, trim the thread and varnish the head.



Last Updated: August 30, 2011
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Categories: Flies, Saltwater - estuary, Saltwater - offshore, Saltwater - tropical