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What's in a name?

It seems that these days the term 'VIVA' has been given to the very popular and successful colour combination of light green or chartreuse and black.
"It was first used by an English fly-dresser called Victor Furze. He had studied Thomas Clegg's book, The Truth about Fluorescence, and concluded the fluorescent light green was the most visible color to trout."

Hence the name.

A great point fly for a team of three flies particularly in slightly discoloured water.

See also:
Fiona shrek
Shrek - original
 

Materials

Process

A	Thread your bead onto the hook small opening first. Wind the thread from behind the eye of the hook to the bend of the hook in close turns. Understanding hooks

Tie in a woolly bugger type tail. I don't add the tinsel as in the traditional woolly bugger type tail but you can if you think your fly needs the extra bit of flash. This is one of those flies where the under-body must be uniform so if when you tied the marabou tail in you were left with ridges along the body use a bit of dubbing to fill those gaps in.

• Woolly bugger type tails

B	Take about half the marabou that your going to use for the tail. Tie that marabou in at the the bend of the hook with that under-tail extending beyond the back of the hook a distance of one and a half to two times the length of the hook.

C	Take enough tinsel fold it in two with half on top of the under-tail and the rest laying toward the back of the fly.

D	Fold the backward facing tinsel over forward and over the under-tail so ther are 4 strands of tinsel evenly spaced over the under-tail.

E	Take the second half of your marabou and tie that in on top of the tinsel and the under-tail.

F	Tie in a length of ribbing material in at the bend of the hook.

G	Tie in a length of holographic tinsel at the bend of the hook. Wind your thread to behind the bead

H	Wind your tinsel forward in slightly overlapping turns. Tie the tinsel off behind the bead and trim the excess.

I	Select the hackle for the body. If the hackle selected is very dense you may want to strip the hackles off one side as in the Magoo fly so that the hackle does not obscure the body of the fly too much. Tie in a hackle with barbules about as long as the gape of the hook. I generally find I can poke the but of the hackle into the back opening of the bead. Woolly bugger hackles

J	Wind the hackle back along the body of the fly creating 4 or 5 segments. Whilst holding the hackle in place with you left hand pick up the wire with your right hand and wind it forward locking the body hackle in place and forming 4 or 5 segments along the body. Body segments on flies <

K	li>Tie the ribbing material off behind the bead and trim off the excess.

L	Tie your front soft hackle in by the tip.

M	Take just 1 or 2 turns of the front hackle depending on the thickness of the barbules. Wind your thread through the hackle tying it into place. Trim the butt end of the hackle with a blade. Stroke the hackles back and lock them in place with several wraps of thread creating a narrow collar behind the bead. Whip finish behind the bead. I generally just do one or two quad hitches by hand. Multiple hitches done by hand Trim the thread and varnish the collar and the bead. If you don't varnish the bead they tarnish quickly.

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