Golden Olive Variant

[weight_forward]

Here's a few pictures of a fly that did me proud the last visit to Uist. In the Machair lochs I've always done well with a Golden Olive bumble on the bob, especially when you see a few fish splashing about. The last few visits though I've convinced myself that I catch more quality fish on stickleback imitations so this was an effort to hedge my bets, a golden olive bumble, stripped down a bit and a pearly rib. It did well on the bob, but actually better in a #12 on the middle even outfishing a skinny pearly dabbler.





Hook: B175 #12 or #10
Thread: Can't remember, looks like Olive UTC
Tail: Hackle fibres from olive dyed cree
Ribs: Pearl Mirage + Hot Orange UTC (small)
Body: My own golden olive blend (olive, yellow, orange etc. seals fur)
Body Hackle: Cree cock dyed olive
Head Hackle 1: Turquoise grizzle hen
Head hackle 2: Olive grizzle hen

Any comments appreciated.

[fortbhoy]

looks good, nice colours.
it would be nice to have a view of the whole fly though

[savage take]

what's the tail steve. will do a couple of them.

[zimtrout]

ansome mate, lovely colours! can you stick a list of materials, or are they a secret??

[weight_forward]

Originally Posted by fortbhoy

it would be nice to have a view of the whole fly though

When you've seen one hook point you've seen them all!

Dressing added, one thing I will change though, winding the rib the same direction as the tinsel looks good, but does **** all to protect it, a counterwound rib would be better.

mmmm interesting can't say fe ck any more

[sarg]

A riot of colour, love it

[dabhoy]

Originally Posted by weight_forward

When you've seen one hook point you've seen them all!

Dressing added, one thing I will change though, winding the rib the same direction as the tinsel looks good, but does **** all to protect it, a counterwound rib would be better.

mmmm interesting can't say fe ck any more

That screams sea trout to me Steve nice tie

When I tie flies with tinsel and wire rib I try and lay the wire in the centre of the tinsel to help protect it.

[zimtrout]

Thank you!

[Scratch]

Got a nice Uisty look to that one Steve.. I'm sure it'll fetch a few up.