Guide
IllustrationFiery Brown Dabbler
Wet fly#10–12fiery brown / bronzeBest: Mar–Aug
When to use
A classic Irish lough all-rounder that covers different food forms as the season changes. Fish it high in the water on a pulled cast, especially on rougher days or when trout are not locked on to one exact hatch.
Imitates
Freshwater shrimp early, duckfly in spring, sedge later, plus general buggy attraction.
Team position
Top dropper or middle dropper on a pulled lough team.
Best methods
Figure-of-eightDibbled
Dressing
- Hook
- wet fly, #10-12
- Thread
- black
- Tail
- bronze mallard fibres with fiery-brown hackle fibres
- Body
- fiery-brown fur dubbing
- Rib
- flat gold tinsel and gold wire
- Hackle
- fiery-brown cock body hackle plus orange guinea fowl front hackle, with bronze mallard throat
- Wing
- bronze mallard
- Head
- black varnished thread head
Documented dressing is a recognised Davie McPhail variant rather than a single universally fixed formula.
Pairs with
Retrieve & line
- Wants a wave — fish it on the bob and dibble it
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