Mayfly - Any Ideas

[Former member 6]

Any ideas on a name and a recipe for this Mayfly ?







It's not a quiz, I obtained the fly a few years ago and was looking to tie some. Thought it might be of the Lough Arrow Genre ?

[emerger1981]

a mess..

[dabhoy]

Is it not just a yellow may that has been beaten up by the trout and the tail has gone and the palmer trashed.

[roll cast]

Tail Cream cock
Thorax??? cover pt fibres
Thorax hackle Cream cock
Rib gold oval
Body rear hares ear
front light creamy olive something
Hackle French partridge natural I think possibly something else in the hackle area


Does this help

[Former member 6]

Originally Posted by dabhoy

Is it not just a yellow may that has been beaten up by the trout and the tail has gone and the palmer trashed.

There's no Palmer. Front/ head hackle which I think is yellow partridge then what seems to be a brown shoulder hackle, yellow body, gold oval rib. Then, this is the funny part, it's as though the butt is tied as though it's like a thorax case with maybe a badger hackle pulled down and then a badger hackle fibre tail ?

Looks like some of the fibre ends got too close to a heat source at some point so are not supposed to be like that. I have another couple but this was the biggest so I used it for photography purposes.

[roll cast]

Originally Posted by Black-Don

Looks like some of the fibre ends got too close to a heat source at some point so are not supposed to be like that. I have another couple but this was the biggest so I used it for photography purposes.

Thats french partridge it has ends that are like gp tippet

[Former member 6]

Originally Posted by roll cast

Tail Cream cock
Thorax??? cover pt fibres
Thorax hackle Cream cock
Rib gold oval
Body rear hares ear
front light creamy olive something
Hackle French partridge natural I think possibly something else in the hackle area


Does this help

Yes, that's very much like it, it's as though the butt is tied like a hares ear nymph with a hackle thrown in ?

Would be nice if someone could name this and give a bit of information on it. I think the flees came from Cafaro's in Glasgow.

[dabhoy]

So it seems like it is an interpritation of a hatching mayfly then.

[roll cast]

http://www.flyforums.co.uk/fly-tying...ber-nymph.html

Follow the step by step for tying the back end of this one just add the tail before the cover and a hackle after the cover.

[Former member 6]

Originally Posted by roll cast

http://www.flyforums.co.uk/fly-tying...ber-nymph.html

Follow the step by step for tying the back end of this one just add the tail before the cover and a hackle after the cover.

Soundz good but possibly in this case the back hackle would be done before the thorax cover, sorry photaes aren't that great. Thanks for your help.