A Pile .....

[sweenytodd]

....of Flies

Should be Grizzle and should be long shank but I found it made no difference what so ever when using these on the river last season .

Simplest fly you could ever tie , black thread , Badger hackle , thats it , simples

Just run a wee bit of super glue down the thread base before winding the hackle up , makes it last well with no need for ribs

Cheers

[dabhoy]

nice and neat Danny
I fished these last year on a visit to Loopy land and they were great little catchers all tied on 24# mind you I never thought about superglue to strengthen them which would have been good as they were pretty knackered after a few fish.

[Scratch]

Nice shot Danny I don't bother with a long shank either for the Griff.. or the peacock body, and as you say.. the colour is largely irrelevant - it's the dimpling of the hackle fibres on the film that does the damage - and lots of it!

[North Country Angler]

Nice. I have to say I've never seen a Griff tied on a long shank before (I usually use an SLD or Kamasan B160). Yours look just right to me.


M

[A. Fluker]

Originally Posted by dabhoy

nice and neat Danny
I fished these last year on a visit to Loopy land and they were great little catchers all tied on 24# mind you I never thought about superglue to strengthen them which would have been good as they were pretty knackered after a few fish.

Loopy land!

Super tyes ST proper guide flies. And they work.

[sweenytodd]

Originally Posted by dabhoy

nice and neat Danny

Cheers .

Originally Posted by dabhoy

all tied on 24#

Yeah these are big , # 18

Originally Posted by Scratch

Nice shot Danny

Cheers , pics are a bit hit of miss for me . I only have a Nikon Coolpix 5600 point and shoot job and just try to get the best I can from it

Originally Posted by Scratch

I don't bother with a long shank either for the Griff.. or the peacock body, and as you say.. the colour is largely irrelevant - it's the dimpling of the hackle fibres on the film that does the damage - and lots of it!

Agree , agree and agreed

Originally Posted by North Country Angler

Nice. I have to say I've never seen a Griff tied on a long shank before (I usually use an SLD or Kamasan B160). Yours look just right to me.


M

Cheers , sorry I didn't actually mean long shank I meant standard like k170 for example . There are tied on 160's # 18

Originally Posted by Loopy

Loopy land!

Super tyes ST proper guide flies. And they work.

Cheers ears , aye I find they bring a fish up when there is no sign of fish even being in the river

They work well enough on lakes also .

[Scratch]

Originally Posted by North Country Angler

Nice. I have to say I've never seen a Griff tied on a long shank before

Don't quote me Matt, but it rang a bell with me when Danny mentioned the long shank. I vaguely remember something about the original being tied not on a lonnnnnnnnnng shank, but something similar to a b400... a slightly extended shank!

[silversedge]

Nice Danny,and a cracking photo