The Ingredients!

Ive stated many times that I find great inspiration from old flytying books, magazines and articles as I often find old, odd or forgotten fly patterns among their pages.

Recently I was having a rummage through my boxes of old T&S and FF&FT magazines in my loft when I discovered a pile of FF&FT suppliments which I had long forgot and had tucked away in a document box.

I really enjoyed reading through them especially the Scottish suppliments as they carried some fantastic articles about lochs and areas that at the time I had never been to, but have since over the years now experienced. So as you can imagine they were an interesting  read.

While having a read through one of the Irish suppliments dated 2002, I came across an interesting article about fly patterns for the Waterville area of Ireland.

One pattern that caught my attention in this write-up was a pattern that is ridiculously named "The Ingredients." 

As you can see from the photo of one of the few I tied this afternoon it certainly appears to have all the right ingredients to fool troot.

The dressing for it is as follows.

Kamasan B160 size 10 hook.

Black Uni 8/0

A mix of red tinsel/flash tail.

Body of 1/2 red and Black seals fur.

Black hen hackle 

Folded Church window feather.

(This one is not very well marked)

Flat silver rib.

One point of note regards the pattern is that I think this fly's creator could have been a bit more imaginative in naming the fly.

Regardless of its name I look forward to giving this pattern a go next year especially on the Highland lochs and lochans as well as Hillend too.