sydb
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Most successful fly of the summerOk guys what fly - either wet or dry or lure - has caught the most fish for you this summer?
Mine would have to be the wee size 20 black F fly as tied and endorsed by Firey Brown
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fossil-fish
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Yes Syd, I would have to say another of Firey's creations, a hare's ear c.d.c shuttlecock. Either flies that firey has given me himself, or my own blatant copies. One 'improvement' or simply change that I have made is to tie them on a heavier coarse fishing type hook instead of the very fine dry fly hooks that the originals were tied on. Drennan size twenty carbon specimens are my present iron of choice, they are a little bit more suitable for Woodford's bigger rainbows.
The only patterns that have come anywhere near close have been buzzers in either black or bright green.
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Watty's Rock
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Hoppers done it for me over the summer (in fact all season) in both claret and black.  And, a few patterns from oul FB were successful for me as well, hare's ear CDC, the  "special" shipmans, don't want to give too much away without his permission. 
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sydb
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Best fly this summerOk Wattys so which one???
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Watty's Rock
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Would have to say the hopper. 
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fossil-fish
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Special Shipman's eh, we would need to hear more about that.
Shipman's is a fly I don't really get on with, I am never sure if the are floating or sinking and I can not see them on the water.
However I took a fish this evening on a small green one after several refusals to my usual c.d.c.s. Must have been the slight differnce in the presentation that done the trick.
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Straid Bumble
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A quill cruncher and quill buzzer have been my most successful flies on the stocked waters and a Claret stimulator on the Erne and Melvin.
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sydb
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best fly this summerStraid whats the difference between a quill buzzer and an ordinary buzzer? 
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fossil-fish
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Re: best fly this summer | sydb wrote: | | Straid whats the difference between a quill buzzer and an ordinary buzzer? |
Syd,
Stripped quill, ie peacock herl with the flue removed, can be used as body material for buzzers and other flies. Makes for a very realistic effect. Found this example on another site. Shows the overall effect quite well.
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sydb
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Best fly this summerCheers FF it definitely looks good anyway
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harry_lfc
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nice fly
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FIREY BROWN
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successful flyHi All
most successful fly for me has undoubtly been the Hares Ear CDC it has taken quite literally Bags of fish from early season right up to the present
FIREY BROWN
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tack4
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have to agree with firey n fossil fish cdc hares ear with orange butt form sizes 14- 20 have done the buisness
a big part of this fly's success is its simplicity, fishability and the hooks i now use are as per fossil fish
specimen chub hooks (short shanked make em smalller n deadly) last far longer than ordinary fine wire hooks
i had 10 fish today at a local scottish water 9 falling to the same size 20 cdc orange butt fly
a good press in a paper towel (kitchen roll) between fish and its as good as new (almost bit rougher but that makes it fish better)
so when tying and i feel a SBS comin here remember remeber rough it up!
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