| Hook |
Wet Fly 10 - 16 |
| Tail |
Green fluorescent wool
(short tag) |
| Rib |
Fine gold wire |
| Body |
A range of bodies have
been used, the most successful being flat gold tinsel, lime
green floss or fluorescent white floss. The version with a gold
body was also widely known in Loch Leven angling circles, simply
as the "Black and Gold". |
| Wing |
None |
| Hackle |
Black hen hackle |
| Head |
Black varnish or red
varnish |
| Use |
One of those flies
that enjoyed a few years of startling success in Scotland before
being adopted elsewhere in Britain. It was quite
common for Loch Leven anglers to go out with a four-fly cast (a
long leader with a tail fly and three droppers) bearing four different versions of this fly. In the smaller
sizes it is an excellent brown trout fly on many stillwater
fisheries.
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