Brenda

Brenda

Kasper Muhlbach - Henning Eskol - Per Gade Nielsen

My attraction

to the Brenda lies first and foremost in its color. Rainbow and yellow Golden Pheasant! What's not to like?

The original Brenda

was tied by Danish fly angler and tyer Ove Monrad and incorporates a brass bead to give it some weight. We rarely see brass beads on coastal flies, but personally I find that flies with heavy beads and cones do very well on the coast, and the added weight in the front results in a very sexy, jigging motion in the water when the fly is retrieved in small strips. You find the same principle and motion in flies such as Raoul Kempkes's Perfect Woolly Bugger not to mention the renown Jiggy.

There's a variation

called Brenda's Mother. Larger, longer and unweighted, using yellow golden pheasant feathers for the hackles, but it's essentially the same pattern. My personal favorite is the weighted version, but I will most likely tie the smaller, weighted flies using GP feathers. Brenda's Sister, maybe?

I will most likely tie the smaller, weighted flies using GP feathers. Brenda's Sister, maybe?

Yellow Omoe Brush

Martin Joergensen

I may also

break the original pattern by cutting down on the number of hackles. The prescription says hackle fibers for a tail and four body hackles, but I think a tail, a middle hackle and a front one will do.

The fly is said

to have been inspired by Ken Bonde Larsen's Omoe Brush, and while I can see the resemblance in the row of hackles, I still find this a distinctly different fly and one that certainly exists in its ow right. Oddly enough I used to tie an Omoe Brush using light dubbing and yellow GP feathers many years ago - not unlike a dull Brenda without a bead. It's been years since I tied and fished this fly, but I still remember catching a few seatrout on it. I only have a small, B/W image of this fly.

Golden rainbow

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FMJGPB gff

Martin Joergensen

1 - bead	2 - thread base	3 - super glue
4 - position bead	5 - start the thread	6 - tail fibers
7 - tail	8 - tail done	9 - flash
10 - flash	11 - trim flash	12 - hackle selection
13 - tie in 1st hackle	14 - wrap hackle	15 - stroke back
16 - 1st hackle	17 - dub	18 - dub
19 - 2nd hackle	20 - wrap the hackle	21 - stroke back
22 - 2nd hackle done	23 - dub	24 - dub
25 - 3rd hackle	26 - wrap	27 - stroke back
28 - backswept	29 - last dubbing	30 - cover the gap
31 - last hackle	32 - wrap it	33 - last stroke

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Done

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Brenda

Martin Joergensen - Henning Eskol