Jeff to tell you the truth there is no real substitute for bronze mallard, i have tried all sorts of stuff but never found anything to match it. but to tell you the truth is the fish really going to worry about a feather that is not exactly like it.
I have found over the years that a lot of guys ...

Hi Guys
well where do i start
the patterns are mainly for wild brown trout but can also be used for Rainbows, we fish these flies close to the shore lines of the loughs for gillaroos.
Orange and green are the predominant colours to represent Daphnia.
I always use a team of three flies on a cast.
A ...

Hi Jeff
the bronze mallard is one i dye up commercially
the flies are fished as a team the bumble on the top dropper and the dabbler on the point, i usually put a middle dropper on such as a cock robin or a black olive

Hi guys met a fantastic last month Jeff Smith, he was over for a visit and he kindly visited me and gave me 2 beautiful books on Local fly patterns.
This weekend will see a major competition on lough Melvin , so here is a few patterns we are going to field test
the sunburst dabbler
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Well if any one is interested in one of these frames i am open to suggestions, i have 10 frames left all are Irish patterns, signed and dated on the back.
As mark can vouch this is not a financial venture it is purely for Operation Mark.
by rthe way here is another video i did this morning a great ...

Hi Mark
good to hear from you,i will be at the Spring show in Newark in February,doing theBelfast show in three weeks . i might get to the symposium bit of a problem as it clashes with the Irish fly fair in Galway.
finished 12 frames of the Irish may flies for Operation Mark so it is all go now to ...

This year we had great success on our local river with a pattern dear to my heart
the picric klimkhammer
enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnIB8VjipgY

here is another pattern i use for the sea trout a real killer,i fish it up stream into the head of a pool and it sinks like a stone

the peter ross nymph
silk guttaman black 8/0
hook kamasan b175 no 10
tail dyed red pheasant
body woven red and siler utc wire
thorax red pheasant with red holo tinsel ...

Hi Mark
the radio show went great, they are looking into me doing a tv interview sometime later this year they want to filmme doing the wire patterns.The radion interviewer Gerry Kelly was in stitches trying to weave the flies that is why we did not tie oive on air as we knew we would end up ...

Been messing around with some new patterns for next year on the Irish Loughs
Picric Golden Olive
SILK Brown 8/0
HOOK Kamasan B 175 size 10
TAIL Picric dyed tippett
Body Picric dyed seals fur
Rib Chartreusse utc wire
UNDER WING Picric dyed Polar BearThroat hackle Picric dyed Olive
Wing Bronze ...