Guide
IllustrationSilver Invicta
Wet fly#10–12silver / yellow / blueBest: Jun–Sep
When to use
A traditional loch-style wet fished as the bob or middle dropper on a three-fly team, especially useful when trout are on fry or during a sedge hatch; works on both small and large stillwaters from bank or boat.
Imitates
Small fry/pin-fry and drowned sedge pupa; also works as a general attractor.
Team position
Bob (top dropper) fly in a traditional three-fly loch-style team.
Best methods
DibbledFigure-of-eight
Dressing
- Hook
- down-eye wet fly, #10–14
- Thread
- brown
- Tail
- golden pheasant crest
- Body
- flat silver tinsel
- Rib
- fine oval silver tinsel or silver wire
- Hackle
- red game/furnace cock hackle, palmered sparsely, with a blue jay or blue-dyed guinea fowl throat hackle
- Wing
- hen pheasant centre tail
- Head
- thread head, varnished
Silver-bodied variant of James Ogden's original yellow-bodied Invicta (a hatching-sedge imitation); the silver body leans it toward a fry/attractor role.
Pairs with
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