Skinny Peach Baby doll....ish

[Englander]

Hi Guys

Ive heard tell that peach or pink baby dolls can be deadly for wild brownies ?? Anyway tied this Skinny version ................ any thoughts ? Oh size 10 B175

[Aaron P]

Peach is a good colour for broonies, i'd say try a thinner rib on your fly, what is the tail and body material?

[Englander]

Hi

Tail /boby Uni-floss LT orange believe it or not ! Re ribbing only siz emirage opal i had .........might split it with a scalpel.

[Aaron P]

Try glo brite 7 & 8 mixed together and teased out with some velcro, thats what I use on my peach muddlers to great effect on Orcadian broonies.

Aaron.

[maharg]

Try spinning the tinsel to thin it down.
Dont fancy your chances trying to cut it evenly

[shuck raider]

Original pattern as devised by Brian Kench for Ravensthorpe did not have any rib

[Chris Reeves]

The Peach doll was a very effective competition fly in the early 80's before blobs and boobies dominated. I tied a version with Peach wool back and tail over a pearl lurex body. I found that it worked best pulled very very fast or left static, in-between retrieves were much less effective.
I once had 4 fish at Grafham each of which took as I was reeling in at the end of a drift. needless to say when I treid to catch them like that deliberately nothing happened.
A peach doll was also the fly that took a fish on my boat partners back cast at Pitsford. T
He was still desperately trying to cast with a 2lb rainbow leaping about behind the boat while I was helpless with laughter!