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Fly of the month

The Beadhead Pheasant Tail Flashback Nymph

This fly is one that was promoted some years ago by the guides at Goulburn Valley Fly Fishers. It’s fairly quick and easy to tie, and once you get yourself organised you can put together a pile in no time. It’s a good fly too, and has caught a lot of fish in the rivers around Thornton.

To quote from the Goulburn Valley website:

“This fly has been one of our real favourites at the (Goulburn Valley) fly fishing centre. At any time we

Fly of the month

The Infamous Mop Fly

Well, here it is for what it’s worth – the Mop Fly (if indeed it qualifies as a fishing fly).

Materials needed:

Hook: Wet fly hook, sizes 8 or 10.
Thread: Same colour as body, 6/0.
Bead: Any colour – 3.6 mm or 4.0 mm
Body: One of the microfibre ‘dreadlocks’ or one inch long extrusions or ‘pimples’ cut from a cheap mop head or drying cloth or cleaning glove or duster.
Collar: (Optional) The fly shown above has a collar of dubbed Peacock Bronze Ice Dubbing (an addition

FLY OF THE MONTH
The Pheasant Tail & Partridge (… fromYvonChouinard article in Trout & Salmon Magazine, May 2016)

Here are the details for tying the Pheasant Tail & Partridge pattern, described in this issue’s Editor’s Desk. It can be tied and fished as a spider pattern or a nymph.