First Pictures- Wasp Fly and Wolly Buggger

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Heres some flies I have tied this morning.


Flouro Green Wolly Buggger


Wasp Fly

Comments welcome
Al

[maharg]

The wooly bu88er and all its variants is a great stand by.
Stick the wasp fly in a corner of your box until it is needed. It might be never, it might be next week, but I am sure it will do the biz when required.

[A. Fluker]

Like the wasp pattern on that hook.

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Loopy I don't know what type of hook it tied on as I tied it at a childrens tying work shop at the Irish fly fair last weekend have been looking for a similar hook but can't find one?

[maharg]

Looks like a "living nymph" type hook to me.

[christy27]

A question that's been on my mind for some time, every time, in fact, I see a variation of a wasp fly...do trout really eat wasps???

I suppose they must else why would people tie them. Seems a little suspect to me though.

I'll just pull my helmet on ready for the flak...

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W ell I remember reading a fly fishing and tying mag a while back mike harding(think thats his name,wrote book about northcountry spider, you know who I mean) saying that he had found trout when he spooned them had wasps and beetles in them?

[palindromic_bob]

Trout will eat anything floating by if they are in the mood. I dropped a cigarette filter while rolling on the bank and a few meters down the river a trout rose at it took it and spat it out.

In a book I was recommended called Trout Fly Recognition by J Goddard he lists the orders/classes of flies of interest to the fly fisherman in order of importance. Wasps are 2nd last in a list of 13.

I think a primary reason for this being the fact wasps don't realy live breed or go near the water much and therefore aren't a first choice food for trout. They are usually unlucky blow ins.

Others I've spoken to have said the wasps and bee patterns can catch when trout are feeding indiscriminatly on anything on the surface, espeacially when there isn't a hatch on and they have also been know to catch salmon (not the intended target I might add)

For the info I've found out about them IMO they are a lotto fly. Sometimes your numbers come up and sometimes not but when they do you can at least say I caught on a wasp/bumble.

[Chris Reeves]

I have never caught a Trout on a wasp but I have seen Chub feeding greedily on wasps that were entering and leaving a nest about 2 inches above the water on a river bank. Every now and then one hit the water and whoosh it was lunch.
I have also found digested Hover flies in many trout and guess that when they are being blown onto the water in numbers that the wasp pattern would work.
Yellow and black combinations are also good for trout almost everywhere in the world. There are several Australian and New Zealanad patterns that mimic wasps and bees.

The hook by the way looks exactly like the Fulling Mill Scopion Living Larva, Model number 31270 (Hayabusa) or the Tiemco version of the same hook.

Cheers

[christy27]

Interesting, thanks for the info.