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Sand Fly

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Published on Feb 12. 2021 - 4 years ago
Updated or edited 4 years ago

Wet flies

Soft hackles and spiders

This sand fly imitation is one of two that are listed in John Reid's Clyde Style flies. It's a great fly for early to mid season fishing and well worth having in your box. John Reid's book is available here: https://amzn.to/3jbOXlz
Robert C Sharp's books "Let's Fish the Clyde" & " Let's Fish Again" are currently very difficult to come by.
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Material list
Hook: Wet fly size 14-18
Thread: Grey
Body: Tying thread
Wing: Hen pheasant tail
Hackle: Black hen tied long.

Alternative dressing
Hook: Wet fly size 14-18
Thread: Black
Body: Tying thread
Rib: Blue thread
Wing: Hen pheasant tail
Hackle: Black hen tied long

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When it comes to books, there's nothing I like more than focus. A book that has a well defined subject and covers in depth rather than broad has my vote already before I have opened it.
When I then open it and find well structured, thoroughly researched and beautifully presented content from cover to cover, I'm sold!
Such a book is Robert L. Smith's "The North Country Fly".

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Plu Stiniog

Jul 1. 2011

The story of this books is a fascinating one. The author Emrys Evans passed away in 2008 at the age of 91. In his life he had collected Welsh fly patterns. He was also a historian of Welsh fishing, and kept notes about the flies. After his death these notes were turned into a book manuscript by Geraint Vaughan Jones and the flies were photographed by his son-in-law Gareth Tudor Jones.

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