Flies
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{{+1}}Squirmy worm{{-1}}
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Over time they have endured and their reputation of, on the day, being an exceptional fish taking fly has grown and grown. They have also become very well accepted in competition circles and consequently I have fallen into line and have added them to my fly box.{{end}}
Last Updated: July 3, 2016
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Categories: Flies, Streamers & pulling flies, Trout, Trout flies
Tags: #fishonfly, #spotters, Squirmy worms, wormies, worms 
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{{+1}}Metalic pink TBH brown woolly bugger{{-1}}
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This is a variation of a bead head woolly bugger that has worked very well for me in Lake Eucumbene and Tantangara Reservoir on brown trout and on Lake Maroon for bass.{{end}}
{{+1}}Bonefish shrimp{{-1}}
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Bonefish are an amphidromous species which means they migrate from fresh to salt water or from salt to fresh water at some stage of the life cycle other than the breeding period. They live in inshore tropical waters and moves onto shallow mudflats and sand flats to feed with the incoming tide. Adults and juveniles may shoal together, and they may be found singly or in pairs.{{end}}
{{+1}}Humungus – black and gold{{-1}}
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The tie of my fly is very close to David Downey's fusion of those two flies which he describes as perhaps the best still water fly in the world. I use it as a top dropper attractor and for that reason use a brass rather than a tungsten bead. Particularly in water that is a little discoloured I am confident this fly brings a lot of fish to my team.{{end}}
{{+1}}Todd’s Vampire (variant){{-1}}
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Based in Maple Ridge, B.C. Todd Oishi designed his "leach" (Vampires are also a blood sucker hence the name) fly with a tail of black rabbit fur or black marabou and with Vampire Vippy as the body. I have not been able to find any Vampire Vippy and tie my Vampires with UV straggle fritz.{{end}}
{{+1}}Destroyer – Chatto’s variant{{-1}}
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My variant does not include the shroud of mara wool tips around the zonker tail. I have left that off because for me the currents around the body of the fly produce more movement in the tail when it is not shrouded. I like hot spots on flies and accordingly have added a hot spot of red Wapsi palmer chenille under the tail. For my deeper water flies, as many other users have done, I use bead chain eyes rather than the unweighted plastic chain eyes as on the original.{{end}}
{{+1}}Foam cicada – Chatto’s ‘black prince’{{-1}}
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This fly sits well into the surface film like the natural and has a very realistic profile when viewed from below. I have made it smaller than the natural on purpose as flies tied as big as the natural are frustratingly cumbersome to cast on #8 weight outfits that are my preference of the target species mentioned above. The fly lands with a good audible fish attracting 'plop' and with its outstretched wings that are only about half as long as the natural still wiggle with the slightest movement in a very enticing way.{{end}}
{{+1}}Muskins PTN{{-1}}
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This is very popular Northern hemisphere fly and whist it more popular in still water it also has its uses in running water. Appealing to fish that are on mixed diet that includes mayfly nymph and midge.{{end}}
{{+1}}UV cruncher{{-1}}
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More of a class of fly than a fly in itself because you will find UV crunchers tied a all sorts of colours from black right through to dun colours and pale olives. I like this particular tie because it incorporates peacock herl which is one of my favourite fly tying materials.{{end}}
Categories: Flies, My 'trout' lake wet fly box, Nymphs, Trout fliesTags: Nymphs, river, trout No Comments »
{{+1}}Topwater sand stripper{{-1}}
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This fly is modelled on the most successful estuary and inshore fly that I have ever fished with my prawn fly. For me in those shallow water salt water environments where you need a fly that you can fish deep in and around snags and other structure, can be fished at a range of depths depending on fly line and retrieve and swims hook point up to reduce hooking up on that very structure that holds fish my prawn fly out-fishes every other fly I have tried.{{end}}