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tack4 · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 12:28 am Post subject: Connemara Black

Connemara Black as shown to me by Firey Brown

hook 8- 14 wet
tail golden pheasant crest
rib siver oval/wire
body balck dubbing
beard bluejay/ blue guinea fowl
wing bronze mallard

put hook into vice run black thread up and catch in
golden pheasant topping

tie in silver rib (oval silver/silver wire)

make a body of black dubbing and wind on rib

turn hook upside down in vice and catch in bluejay (sorry not very clear pic) this is called beard style,a bit tricky to get right but with practise it will come

put hook into vice the right way up,,it should look like this

prepare wing (brown paper for demo only)
step one fold outer edges to middle of bronze mallard

next fold in half along length

this is what you should end up with,,but not brown paper it will only fall to bits when wet use Mallard Very Happy

tie in some bronze mallard,prepared as above, i like the mallard to be nice and dark it makes the fly so much better looking

trim off the waste,,whip finish and varnish....your fly should look something like this

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FIREY BROWN · Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 582 Location: belfast

a good all year round fly and deadly for the wild browns,,it can also be tied with a little Tag/butt of orange floss just before the tail,,,

i read today that it is a good sea trout pattern and one angler stated that it would also be his first choice of fly for salmon on the west coast of ireland (i never knew that)

so there you go it seems this is a more versatile fly than i fisrt thought, i will certainly have a few of them in box form now on

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