Posts Tagged ‘Beetles’
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{{+1}}Foam beetle{{-1}}
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Both floating and wet beetles (including drowned terrestrials beetles and aquatic beetles) should be fished in the current with as little line drag as possible or with a very short twitching action. A nondescript well tied beetle pattern if presented in the right way when fish have beetles on their menu, more often than not, will be accepted by fish. Consequently no fly box would be complete without a selection of beetle patterns.{{end}}
Last Updated: January 13, 2011
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Categories: Dry flies, Flies, Foam and poly flies, My "trout" dry fly box
Tags: Beetles 
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{{+1}}Coch-Y-Bonddu{{-1}}
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The Cock-Y-Bonddu is a Welsh beetle pattern which is equally at home on Australian trout waters. The original was tied with flat silver tinsel wound around the hook shank just behind the body. This little bit of flash isn't intended to represent a tail its more likely that it was included to imitate the beetle wing parts that often trail behind a beetle like a tail when it gets trapped in the water mid flight.{{end}}
{{+1}}Red Tag{{-1}}
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The red tag is as relevant today as when it was first invented some 140 years ago. It is perhaps the quintessential beetle imitation and is popular worldwide.{{end}}