We have been working on our salmon fly range and have lots of new developments occurring in this area with standard tubes flies, Tubeology tube flies and standard salmon flies tied to Mustad hooks. First of the new range to be released are the Hot Sunray Shadow tube flies available on plastic 2", 1" and 0.5" plastic tubes. The Sunray Shadow is a very revved up Collie Dog with a flowing wing which provides superb movement. Initiall it is available as the Sunray Shadow Hot Orange and Sunray Shadow Hot Yellow, both of which are superb as summer patterns and Sunray Shadow Blue which is a great autumn pattern. These are available at an introductory price of just £1.99!

Find out more about salmon hook size and colours by season in our great chart from Tubeology and more on our range of salmon flies. We have reduced the prices of all our salmon flies to just

Stroft GTM Tippet Released

We have been asked for Stroft GTM this fly line many times, it is absolutely superb,  Stroft GTM probably the best fly tippet material available. John Tyzack first recommended that we use it personally we tested it and were stunned. It is non reflective, ultra light and extremely soft. We now personally used our Essential Fly Tapered Leaders and cut them back to about 8 feet in length then use Stroft as the final length. The Essential Fly Tapered Leaders give us the perfect turnover with Stroft virtually invisible  in a 4 foot length to the dry flies. For droppers we simply use descending diameter Stroft and tie our own. This is by far the best line we have used. If used with the knots shown on the packets this is extrodinarily strong and virtually invisible to trout in the 0.12mm diameter and thinner tippet material.

The humble midge is one of the most prevelent insects in the trout's environment. Available from the humble buzzer, emerging as a spider them as a mature insect there is no doubt trout love these. Whether lake or river midges in their various stages of their life cycle are an essential part of the trout's diet. Sandy Dickson spent a long time developing his ultra thin buzzers which has even professional tyers intrigued  as to the materials and techniques involved in manufacturing these flies. Sandy's Blank Buster Buzzers have created an incredible storm since they were seen in all of the UK fly fishing magazines ln 2009.  Great reviews in Trout & Salmon, Fly Fishing and Fly Tying, Total FlyFisher and Trout Fishermen lead to thousands of Sandy's Blank Buster Buzzers being used by fishermen all around the world. These were so successful that Sandy and the team of The Essential Fly spent last year trying different variants of the same flies to match the midge throughout its lifecycle and had a great time and most importantly caught lots of fish!

The result was an industry first, Sandy has developed a range of flies which match the midge from the buzzer stage, through its moving to the surface as a spider, emerging on the surface and finally in klinkhammer form as the adult midge. What is key is Sandy's clever use of fluoro threads and Sandy's Thorax Magic as a backing material which enhances the flies making them truly 'light up' under ultra violet light. 

Scarlet	Very effective at dawn, dust or dull days
Orange & Yellow	Best on bright days
Green	Coloured water and bad light
Luminious Buzzer & Sparklemet Lumi Buzzers	Best 1 hour before dawn and deadly 1 hour before dusk
Flash Attack Silver Flashback	Use anytime of day

 

Sandy's Blank Busters have now been put together in a variety of collections including the full 101 fly Blank Buster Collection which contains all of the midge variants in one box, so whatever the situation if there are midges on the lake or river you are fishing then this is the ultimate fly fisherman's collection. The 101 flies include:

Sandy Dickson's complete buzzer range housed in a clearview box.

With his revolutionary use of fluorescence Sandy Dickson has created a unique range of buzzers that have taken the fly-fishing world by storm. Designed to imitate every stage of the buzzers lifecycle from lava to adult this range of flies deserves to be in every anglers bag.The life cycles of the buzzer can be imitated with a good degree of accuracy, they hatch out on virtually every day of the year. Some of the hatches will be localised and may not be spotted unless fishing in that area. Buzzer hatches can be spotted, by either looking for the adult fly, or finding the spent pupa bodies (shucks) in the surface film.

Sandy's Blank Buster collection includes 96 flies which include every colour variant and size of fly including:

• Sandy's Blank Buster Buzzers (Specimin Hunters) 36 flies in sizes 10 to 16
• Sandy's Blank Buster Bloodworm 3 flies sizes 12 to 15
• Sandy's Blank Buster Spiders 15 flies sizes 12 to 16
• Sandy's Blank Buster CDC Emergers 12 flies sizes 12 to 14
• Sandy's Blank Buster Klinkhammers 30 flies sizes 12 to 20

Tubeology System Released

We have become dealers for the Tubeology system. This is the latest and hottest fishing lure on the market, ideal for fly tyers. We are going to be developing bespoke flies based on this tube fishing system and have seen huge opportunities with this system. Tubeology is available from the end of October and will certainly make the best Sculpin patterns for Brownies and Rainbow, Snake Flies for Sea Trout and Salmon flies.

The team have already shown us their patterns and we are developing our range based on this system. Tubeology is available for Fly Tyers and we will have our own range of tube flies based on this system within the coming months.

Tubeology - The complete system to create Tube Flies, Snake Flies, Spin Flies, Spinners and Flying C's. Total flexibility to catch fish based on water conditions.

72,288 variatitions from one Tube!

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