Skinny Mallard's

[laffingravy]

Mallards? mallards? You probably think I'm quackers

The Dressing(s)



Hook: Lowater size 10 double - black
Thread: Sheer 14/0 white
Tag: 6 - 8 turns of fine silver wire
Tail : Golden pheasant crest
Tag: Glo Brite No 10 yellow or No 4 red floss
Body: Silver or gold tinsel
Rib: Fine silver wire
Hackle: Aubergine dyed hen saddle
Horns (underneath wing) Fine pearl tinsel
Wing: Rolled bronze mallard
Head: Glo Brite No 5 fire orange floss or black thread



A fairly decent punt for sea trout and grilse

[Teifi-Terrorist]

Lovely job and very neat dressing, LG |\

By the way, I too get some of those annoying straggly ends at the head of the fly and have found this tool to be fantastic:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beadsmith-V.../dp/B001HBXOUY

TT.

[laffingravy]

Thanks for that Steff. Does the cauteriser tool you recommend not run the risk of fire with your very generous use of superglue on your own fly heads? I wouldn't want to burn my house down. I will however give your suggestion a try and report back with my findings.

[Teifi-Terrorist]

To be honest I use it to tidy up before finishing the heads, then not running any risk |\

It just burns away annoying little ends that you can never get at, even with the sharpest and slimmest of scissors.

I found it very useful, always nice to have a new piece of kit to play around with anyway :>

TT.

[laffingravy]

I do actually have one Steff just never use it unless I am tying flies for charities, punters or demonstrations. These are just fishing flies for a sortie way , way way up north next week.

[Teifi-Terrorist]

I do actually have one Steff just never use it unless I am tying flies for charities, punters or demonstrations. These are just fishing flies for a sortie way , way way up north next week.

Got you |\

Makes sense and obviously nothing at all wrong with the dressing; I wasn't criticising I can assure you.

Tight lines,

TT.