Bass Flies for Ireland(McPhail)

[Peaty Mann 0]

Hi Everyone,

 

I had 72 flies to tye for some friends who fish and live on the west coast of Ireland in Galway for Bass, so here is some of them for you to have a look, please let me know what you think?

 

 

All the best Davie

[bobfly 0]

Look good to me. Should work anywhere in the salt :headbang:

[Chalk 0]

Very Nice :thumbsup:

[JJD 0]

Very nice! I'm particularly fond of the use of the natural hackle with the synthetics.

 

John

[Jon Boy 0]

hi davy

 

excellent flies as usual

 

its worth remembering that simple patterns also work well pink clouser

 

however we are flytiers and its nice to have something extra

 

davy if you have time i would like to see a close up photo and a material list

 

now just to show what your flies are gonna catch

 

all the best

john

[Peaty Mann 0]

Hi Everyone,

 

I'm glad you liked them.

 

Hi John,

 

Lovely fish, they look a good size as well.

 

The materials used on the flies are white and olive green bucktail, black goat, DNA frosty fibre and a grizzle hackle dyed with Flo- lime and sunburst dyes then pearl flash worked into the wings. The tail is white bucktail and pearl mylar tubing which has been unravelled from the body.

 

All the best Davie

 

 

[letumgo 0]

Davie,

 

These are outstanding bait fish imitations. If you tye any more in the future, could you please take a few photos of the tying steps to show how these are constructed? I am very interested in tying up a few different versions of this patter for the local bait fish.

 

Thanks for the inspiration!

 

Ray

[Linesides 0]

The pattern on the top is nice but the bottom pattern would destroy striped bass around here. The fullness of the fly as tied would thin out nice on the retrieve. Looks like epoxy for the head I could be wrong. The use of the synthetics on the top of the wing is nice, I use peacock herl but your idea would outlast the herl. They look like a deciever pattern minus a lot of material. I have been tying with yak hair for my wings but I am returning to bucktail simply because of the action on decievers and blondes.

All in all a nice set of flies that would fish real well.

 

Dave

 

What size hook is? Looks like a 1/0.

[DouroFly 0]

Great flies Davie!

 

They would catch seabass here in the Portuguese coast for sure.

I´ll also appreciate a step by step of this pattern if possible...

 

All the best

 

Nuno

[Peaty Mann 0]

Hi Everyone,

 

Thanks for the kind words.

 

Dave, The flies are tyed on 1/0 and 2/0 like you said.

 

Hi, Ray and Nuno I had some free time today so I took some photos and put them together and made a slide show on how to tye one of the flies on YouTube.

 

Here is the link. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GqkDA37C_yk

 

All the best and have a Happy New Year Davie.

[letumgo 0]

OUTSTANDING TUTORIAL!!! :yahoo: :clapping: :thumbup:

 

That really makes it easy to understand. Thank you for the time and effort in pulling this together. I often work with epoxy head flies and I really like your trick of using the clipped Q-tip handle. I've got tons of them for tying tube flies. Now they can multi-task.

 

Thank you Davie.

[Jon Boy 0]

hi davie

 

excellent step by step

 

many thanks for posting

 

will have to tie a few of these up

 

all the best

john

[letumgo 0]

Davie,

 

Could you post a link to your video in the Step-By-Step section of this website? I think you've done an outstanding job on this video and think the method will be of general interest. This pattern will work well in salt and fresh water. Sorry to be such a pest.

 

Kind Regards,

Ray

[Peaty Mann 0]

Thanks again,

 

Hi Ray, you're not a pest I've posted the step by step as you asked..

 

Happy New Year everyone...

 

All the best Davie

[DouroFly 0]

Excellent Davie :thumbsup:

 

Thank´s for sharing...

 

Nuno