Irish river flies

[flytyingguy]

Hi folks - does anyone have any idea on what to tie for river trouting in ireland

[cax]

Originally Posted by flytyingguy

Hi folks - does anyone have any idea on what to tie for river trouting in ireland

of course it depends upon the time of season but irish limestone rivers have loads of up-winged flies, sedges, smuts, buzzers, shrimps, beetles, ants, small fish fry etc etc.
What river are you intending to fish?

olive patterns like The Large Dark Olive, Blue winged olive, Iron Blue dun, medium olives, etc etc would be a good start, then nymphs goldheads etc in various sizes, klinkhammers, dry sedge, all the usual stuff.

have a look at this link it will give some more info.

Fishing in Ireland. An angler's guide to the best fishing in Ireland.

[flytyingguy]

River drowes July/August

[goldenolive]

Griffiths gnat
devaux sedge,
g&h sedge
F flies
olive or black shuttlecocks,
comparaduns

sherry spinners
bead head pheasant tail nymphs,


will work on most of the rivers over here at that time of the year,
lots of step by step articles on here,
Here is an excellent sbs


John

[flytyingguy]

Thanks a lot mate

[cax]

there,s a pheasant tail nymph that works really well and it includes a but of pink in it at the thorax.

Bead: Gold tungsten bead 2.8mm.
Tail: 5/6 strands of red game cock hackle.
Rib: medium gold wire, not too heavy or not too fine, brassie type is about right.
Body: 5 strands of Pheasant tail.
Thorax cover: size 10 pearl tinsel.
Thorax: 1/3 pink dubbing 2/3 Fox squirrel dubbed on. pull the pearl tinsel over the top and tie down. Pick out the fox squirrel with a dubbling needle, dont pick out the pink dubbing.

[flytyingguy]

Thanks a lot, when i went this year i had pretty good success to realy tiny spider in silver and black, the sedge hatches at night were intense but i couldnt tempt anything on sedges so while we're at it, does anyone have any good sedge patterns for irish rivers?

[goldenolive]

Originally Posted by flytyingguy

Thanks a lot mate

Your welcome.
Tight lines :-)

[cax]

Originally Posted by flytyingguy

does anyone have any good sedge patterns for irish rivers?

the devaux sedge shown above with a less pointy wing, more of a blunt wing. deer-hair sedges, ethafoam sedge, cdc and elk, but my favorite without doubt is the squirrel hair sedge, this sedge pattern is excellent on still and flowing water, even better that the devaux. apart from thread only 3 materials are needed.

Hook size 16, dryfly hook, something simple like kamason b170 works for me.
size 8/0 tan or camel thread.
body very fine non sparkle dubbing like flyrite, colour to match adult sedge ie light brown, ginger or tan.
Wing fox squirrel. wing must be tied low and neat and must not 'fan' out.
Hackle: light ginger or honey clipped underneath.

no not put gink, aquel etc on the squirrel, it ruins it.

a little tricky to tie properly but well worth the effort .

if a trout refuses it well then

[flytyingguy]

Your a great help mate, thanks - i will get cracking with these - i tend to tie lures for my competition fishing here in scotland so ill need to buy some hooks - any tips on hooks to tie the flies you've given me (and hopefully a few more flies) to tie?