Red Tag~ Help

[Englander]

Hi Guys

Its a pattern ive never fished to rectify this ive tied a bunch of these guys on PR 27 barbless hooks size 12 equivalent to if i tied them on Kamasan size 14 B175.

How best im to fish them ? Is it more a Grayling fly than Brown trout ?

[wobbly face]

All round pattern. I've not fished one for many a year but at the start of 2009 season my mate had a nice brownie on a red tag using a standard wet line. The tag was on the point.

[coasty]

My favourite fly..... Fish em dry and also wet as a beetle. Great early season fly for brownies and late season fly for Grayling. Fished damp in the surface film they are deadly under overhanging bushes...

Also look at treacle parkin and erics beetle ....Just put something about these on my blog....


Andy




Fly fishing North Yorkshire

[THE ROOK]

Englander I would have some with fine lead wire under body and a brown hen hackle ... Fish it on the point in the team of wets! can be awesome wee flee at times.



Wilkie

[richardw]

Originally Posted by Englander

Hi Guys

Its a pattern ive never fished to rectify this ive tied a bunch of these guys on PR 27 barbless hooks size 12 equivalent to if i tied them on Kamasan size 14 B175.

How best im to fish them ? Is it more a Grayling fly than Brown trout ?

Use it as a dry fly, especially the way you have dressed it. It gets eaten as a terrestrial, sedge, beetle and in the small sizes (with a nylon floss tail) is a pretty good midge or reed smut. It is especially useful on a water that has had a few anglers through it that day already and you want to put something different from the now popular flies over the fishes' heads. I always have some in my box just in case. It is harder to see than the similar Sturdy's Fancy in dull light, so I associate it with sunny days.

richard