heather fly

[mad4fly]

HI folks anyone one out there got a pattern for a Heather fly cheers Duncan

[oakham orange]

If you look here Fly Dressing
and go down until you see gwilyms heather fly step by step.

Here is my version.




Althought abibio hopper is also good

[flytyingguy]

Cracker OO, loads of heather flies on the lake, thanks for your tips forr melvin by the way, i had well over 100 trout, 2 salmon and a trout fro the river that weighed 3 lb, for the lough, golden olive bumbles, sedgehogs, mosely may wulffs, green peter bumble, hot orange muddler, freshwater water shrimps, sooty olive, your wee melvin bumbke, viva pennels, dunkeld and my own tying - an irish kate - for the river it tended to be flies with a red ars, red tag, soldier palmers, zulus etc. but the sedge hatches at 10 ocolck at night were intense, also had several doule up so thanks for your advice

[mad4fly]

Thanks looks superb will give it try

[maharg]

Here is an off the wall one.

[flytyingguy]

You can say that again, nice fly though

[Fishing Junkie]

Russ Owen did a feature in last months Trout Fisherman magazine about the Heather Fly on Llyn Brenig. Here's my version of the tying he suggested: