Alexandra

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Tweet Our Price:   £0.45 List Price:   £0.59 Saving Of:   £0.14 (24%) Earn 0 Loyalty Points Availability:      In Stock Alexandra Fly Size:    Size 6  Size 8  Size 10  Size 12  Size 14 Alexandra Details: Model:  EF-6010-6 Bar Code:  886741017961 Brand:  The Essential Fly Manufacturer:  The Essential Fly Price Can$:  Can$ 0.79 Price Euro:  €0.56 Price UK£:  £0.48 Price SEK:  5.19 SEK Price NOK:  4.39 NOK Price DKK:  4.17 DKK -- Fly Fishing Usage --:  - River Trout Fly Fishing:  River Fly Fishing Stillwater Fly Fishing:  Stillwater Fly Fishing UPC Barcode:  886741017954 EAN Barcode:  5052925017958 Alexandra - Fly Tying Dressing For the more adventurous among you we have provided tying specifications for the Alexandra. Remember at The Essential Fly we sell the Alexandra at incredible prices with a top quality fly and service to back it up. It is certainly worth tying the Alexandra yourself to understand the pleasure of catching a fish with your own tied fly, however at the price we sell flies it is only worth tying one or two Alexandra as your can spend more time fishing instead of tying flies - buy volume online with us. Hook Sizes 6 to 14 Silk Thread Black Tail Red Ibis substitute and two or three peacock sword-tail fibres Body Flat silver tinsel Rib Oval silver tinsel Hackle Black cock or hen Wing Green peacock sword flanked with strips f red Ibis substitute (scarlet swan) Tweet

Alexandra - Wet & Nymphs

Alexandra

The Alexandra is a real attractor pattern, primarily use for Brown Trout. The Alexandra fly was named after Queen Alexandra when she was a Princess. The Alexandra was originally called the Lady of the Lake. In its early days of use the Alexandra trout fly was considered too deadly and was banned on many waters. The Alexandra is used by many still water anglers and is really good as a sea-trout fly.

Use The Alexandra To Catch:

	The Alexandra can be used to catch Rainbow Trout
	The Alexandra can be used to catch Brown Trout
	The Alexandra can be used to catch Sea Trout

Despite all the various fly patterns designed to imitate insects and other creatures trout feed on, there are times when the fish just don't seem interested in anything you offer. This usually occurs on days with a depressed or quickly falling barometer, or on the sweltering dog days of summer. Most of us have experienced days like these and know the frustration they can cause. These are the times when the angler needs to resort to a different tactic by employing the flyfisher's secret weapon . . . the attractor pattern, the Alexandra is an attractor fly pattern.

Attractor patterns like Alexandra are designed to do exactly what their name implies, attract a fish's attention. Once the fish has been duped into taking notice of the fly the likelihood of a strike increases significantly. Attractors are tied a bit gaudy usually, with more flash than normal patterns. They don't imitate any specific insect, but are designed to look a bit like many possible food items.

Trout Wet Fly - Alexandra

The trout finds most of its food beneath the surface of the water, sometimes by grubbing around the weed-beds, at other times by rising in water to take nymphs and pupae on their way to the surface 

The wet flies which include Alexandra fall into various categories: larval and pupal forms of various aquatic insects; drowned adults or even swamped stillborn flies; and drowned terrestrials such as beetles. Many do not represent anything in nature, but are classed as attractor flies or lures, designed to tempt the fish to take out of curiosity. A number of the silver-bodied flies can emulate small fry or minnows. Most of the dry flies have a wet-fly equivalents. The use of heavier hooks, softer hen hackles instead of cock, and in the case of winged flies a backward-sloping wing, changes the dry fly into a wet one which sinks below the sufrace of the water. Cock hackles are used for these patterns but they are taken from the very young bird where the individual fibres are very soft.

There are two main areas of wet-fly fishing. Firstly, there are the wild rain-fed rivers and streams where it is difficult to see a fish rise let alone see a minute dry fly on the surface. On such waters, wet flies are used almost exclusively upstream and down, as necessity or terrain dictates. The second main area of wet-fly fishing is on atill waters like lakes, lochs and reservoirs, where the angler uses a team of wet flies just below the surface. 

On wild streams while searching for the natural Brownie, soft-hackled wet flies like the Partridge and Orange, the Snipe and Purple, the Black Spider, a wet Coch-y-Bonddu, and many others are used.

'When do you fish a wet fly, and when a dry?' 

Always fish a dry-fly pattern when you see a trout rising during a hatch of natural insects. However, when the trout refuses to rise to a dry fly, fishing just below the surface with a wet fly can often work. When no activity is obvious, it is a case for the wet fly, pure and simple.

The soft, game-bird hackles of many wet flies have the necessary mobility in the water. They pulsate and 'kick' in the current, attracting the fish by their very movement. They look alive and edible; the two key properties for a successful fly.

Wet Fly Alexandra fishing techniques

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Alexandra Brand:  The Essential Fly

The Essential Fly is a manufacturer of flies, fly tying materials and fly fishing accessories. Established in 2006 The Essential Fly is a multiple award winning company with top quality customer service.

The Essential Fly sells some of the products from the leading fly fishing manufacturers including Airflo Streamline, Cookshill Fly Tying, Cortland, Leeda, Mustad, Scientific Anglers, Sonik Sports, Tubeology, Umpqua Feather Merchants, Veniard, Wychwood

Alexandra Telephone Ordering

We have a telephone ordering department 0845 401 4001 for you to order Alexandra if you need assistance and for all of your fly fishing needs. Our telephone ordering service operates Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm Grenwich Mean TIme (GMT). International telephone ordering is available on +44 (0)113 816 0053. The Alexandra has a part number of EF-6010. The Alexandra has an online saving of £0.14 (24%) when purchasing the Alexandra.[/IF} As well as Alexandra

The Essential Fly is a manufacturer of flies, fly tying materials and fly fishing accessories. Established in 2006 The Essential Fly is a multiple award winning company with top quality customer service.

The Essential Fly sells some of the products from the leading fly fishing manufacturers including Airflo Streamline, Cookshill Fly Tying, Cortland, Leeda, Mustad, Scientific Anglers, Sonik Sports, Tubeology, Umpqua Feather Merchants, Veniard, Wychwood

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The Alexandra was last modified on 30/12/2011 16:41