Guide
IllustrationRaymond
Wet fly#10–12black / silver / blueBest: May–Aug
When to use
An Irish lough attractor fished through the mayfly season and on into summer for daphnia-feeding trout and sea trout; usually fished on the middle or top dropper of a wave team, sometimes dapped.
Imitates
Attractor, loosely inspired by the colours of the large marsh grasshopper — no specific aquatic natural; also taken by daphnia-feeding trout.
Team position
Middle or top dropper on a lough team; fishes with other bright attractors.
Best methods
DibbledDappingFigure-of-eight
Dressing
- Hook
- wet fly, #10–12
- Thread
- black
- Tail
- golden pheasant crest
- Body
- yellow seal's-fur-substitute (SF) dubbing
- Hackle
- crimson cock hackle palmered through the body, with one turn of green-olive French partridge and one turn of grey mallard, a blue jay throat hackle, and a lemon-yellow grey partridge front hackle
- Wing
- hen pheasant centre tail
- Head
- black thread head
Attributed to Murt Folan of Galway, said to be inspired by the colours of the large marsh grasshopper. An elaborate, multi-hackle dressing — several distinct hackle stages layered through the fly.
Pairs with
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