The Dressing
Hook: Kamasan Low Water Single size 6
Thread: Black
Tag: No 4 Red Glo Brite Floss
Tail: Golden pheasant crest
Body: Large silver holographic tinsel
Rib: Fine silver wire
Hackle: Blue dyed Guinea fowl
Wing: Rolled bronze mallard
Horns: Blue and yellow barbs from a macaw centre tail
Out Friday for sea trout on the Lune at Rigmaden I opened my 2014 account with a fish of about 3lbs with an American Express. Out again last night at Arkholme on the same river the best I could manage was a few brown vermin. The biggest of about 2-1/2lbs fell to the charms of my bastardised Yozzer. 11.45am the river lifted and coloured up and I went home to bobo's (that's St. Helens speak for bed). It is a fly that usually works very well for me but is usually struck with rather cruel affliction of attracting bloody nuisance brown trout.
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