TACTICAL FLIES - £5 Boxes
Specialist fly selections to cover a wide range of situations on still and running waters.
All cost £5. They are supplied in plastic boxes that make handy pocket fly boxes to slip in your pocket.
Many of the flies are patterns that are requested by customers - expect a few suprises! Listed in no particular order.
West Country Dryflies
Dressed with one hackle and pretty thin. Especially useful in pools and glides (flat water)
11 flies including: Half Stone, Pheasant Tail, Grey Duster, Blue Dun.
West Country Dryflies #14 - £5
West Country Dryflies #16 - £5
Rough Dryflies
These are tied with two hackles and no tails. Use in fast water or on stillwaters in a wave.
Also a good top dropper fly with sunk spiders/nymphs on the point and/or droppers.
11 flies including: Black Spider, Pheasant Tail, Greenwells Glory, Hot Tups.
Rough Dryflies #12 - £5
Rough Dryflies #14 - £5
North Country Dryflies
Tied with two hackles and tails these are ideal for any fast river.
11 flies including: Pheasant Tail, Greenwells Glory, Blue Winged Olive, Iron Blue Dun
North Country Dryflies #14 - £5
North Country Dryflies #16 - £5
Dry 'F' Flies #16/18/20
An essential fly on all waters.The most useful fly to use when fish are feeding on small insects. Tied to float.
11 flies in this set
'F' Flies set #16/18/20 - £5
Yorkshire Spiders
Use on any fast flowing river, use the #14 in fast water, #16 in slow glides and pools
11 flies including: Partridge & Orange, Snipe & Purple, Waterhen Bloa & Partridge & Yellow.
Yorkshire Spider set #14 - £5
Yorkshire Spider set #16 - £5
Clyde Style Spiders - The 'Wee Flee'
Imitates a wide range of swimming nymphs and drowned duns
11 flies including: Sandfly, Hen Blackie, Blae & Harelug, Blae & Black
Clyde Spiders set #14 - £5
Clyde Spiders set #16 - £5
Clyde Wetflies - The 'Big Flee'
Larger patterns to use on the river as the light goes, also useful on stillwaters.
11 flies including: Reid's Assassin, Teal & Red, Murrays Bluebottle, Woodcock & Mixed
Clyde Wetflies #12 - £5
Tummel & Stewart Spiders #14/16
Flies that have stood the test of time. The Tummel Spider is tied short and with not much feather. It is a great imitation
of a drowned insect. The semi-palmered Stewart Spider will tempt fish on any water.
Paterns include: Black Spider, Dun Spider, March Brown and Black Gnats
12 Stewart & Tummel Spiders #14 - £5
12 Stewart & Tummel Spiders #16 - £5
Small Weighted Nymphs
Although these patterns are associated with chalkstreams they will work on any water.
11 flies including: Pheasant Tail Nymph, Grey Goose, Killer Bug & Gold Ribbed Hares Ear
Small Weighted Nymphs #14 - £5
Small Weighted Nymphs #16 - £5
Cove Set
If you want some flies to drift on any stillwater try these. Fish in teams of two or three flies.
11 flies including: Coves Pheasant Tail Nymph (Point), Black Spider on the middle dropper and a Bushy Black spider on the Bob.
Cove Set #10/12 - £5
The next set include the same patterns but are tied on smalller fine wire hooks, ideal for wild trout.
Cove Set (Wild) FW#12 - £5