Following my post, First Carp on the fly ! I have had a couple of pm's regarding the fly. It can be tied in many colours and trimmed to different shapes. It would appear to be more successful than the 'deer hair' type flies IMHO because the hook is flexibly mounted below, rather than fixed.

The pictures are absolute rubbish but hopefully,good enough for you to get the idea.

Nigel

Bread fly SBS

1. Cut two circles from cardboard – roughly 3cm diameter with a 1cm hole in the middle.



2. Thread a darning needle with wool / cotton / string etc. Your choice.




3. Put the two pieces of cardboard back to back and start winding through the hole.



4. When winding there is no need tie fresh material to the old, just lay it on and wind over it. When you have finished it should look like this.



5. Cut between the two layers of cardboard but do not pull the cardboard out yet !



6. Cutting completed.



7. Using a strong thread, tie the ‘centre’ of the pom-pom between the two layers of cardboard. (I use repeated overhand knots, pulling tight each time) Make sure you leave both ends of the thread as long as possible. These will be used later to tie the hook on.



8. Once the centre of the pom-pom is tightly tied – remove the cardboard rings. Note the doubled thread protruding from the centre of the pom-pom.



9. Start trimming the pom-pom to the shape you require. Make sure you do not cut the threads !



10. Start tying in the hook 2 – 3mm below the eye. Over wrap the threads, come back to the joining point and finish off with 4 or 5 half hitches around the thread ‘stalk’ where it protrudes from the bread fly - a whip finish should be possible and perhaps more secure !? Cut off the excess thread.



11. Bread fly completed with a flexibly mounted hook below.



I use a floatant, just on the upper surface of the fly so that the fly floats largely submerged with just the upper surface in the surface film.

Excellent SBS of a pom pom have'nt made one for years. Good fly too.

Dave

nice, but why use orange on the hook? would it not be better to use white to mask the hook?

Excellent fly. Deffo going to have a go at that. It would also work for the chub on the rivers.

dorsetdarren, I used orange on the hook so that it would be more easily visible for the purpose of the SBS only.

Under normal circumstances I would use a thread of the same colour as the fly i.e. ....white / tan / brown etc.

Nigel

ahhhhh ok bud ,im going to try that one. i think a slow sink version would work with no flotant on.ive had loads on the drop and quite a few with the fly static on the bottom aswell !

Very cunning Nigel, I will try that tomorrow.
Thanks for your efforts.
S.

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Nigel,

Neat way to do it. I've not see anything tied like that before.

I started tying bread patterns for carp about 15 years ago back home. I always used a large glo ball/glo bug pattern tied shaggy. My 'final' pattern end up with a Tiemco 200R in a size 6 and about a 3 cm ball of creme yarn. Tie it like a standard glo bug, but don't trim the ball tight. I'll trim the bottom of the fly almost flat to the hook shank. Then coat with floatant on the top of the fly.

You can vary the shape of the ball if you need to but I've always used round. You can also change the size of the fly and hook. When the fish get spooky and wise to a big fluff ball, you can go to a small ball and heavier wire hook to have it float lower in the film.

Fly Tying Instruction for begginers - Copperfly.net - The Salmon Glo Egg Flishing Fly

Thanks
Rick

Had a go at this tonight. Wrapping the pom pom took me quite a while and my mrs claimed that I was wrapping it too tight Anyway, finished it off and it looks great. I will be fishing it a little differently when I'm out on Monday. I'll let you know how it goes.

Kev.

Hi kevos1,

I actually think the tighter you wrap the wool the more dense the end product which makes it easier to trim.....

Tight lines on Monday and look forward to hearing how it went !

Nigel