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Another Roger Woolley grayling fly, from 'Modern Trout Fly Dressing'.


Rough Bumble by GlassJet, on Flickr

Hook: Kamasan B170 #14 Silk: Peasall's yellow, well waxed. Body: Yellow floss. Hackle: Genetic hen, mid dun, palmered. Rib: red silk and peacock herl.

Again, no idea what this is supposed to look like, taken from text only description in the book. so if anyone knows better.....

Description says:
Body: yellow floss ribbed peacock herl and red silk.

I tied in red silk and two strands peacock herl, twisted the lot, and trapped in palmered hackle with it and ribbed. Couldn't think what else it meant, though I've never seen it done before, not that that is saying very much. But as a way of getting little bits that wave around on the body, I think it is rather cool...

Andrew

Not knowing what is right and wrong (parents failed at that) yours look like a good interpretation.

What makes a bumble, except from palmered hackle?

dd

I'm with dd on this, what the heck is a "Bumble"???

I really like this pattern whether I know what a bumble is or not.

Wayne

yeah...it's cool.

daringduffer wrote:Not knowing what is right and wrong (parents failed at that) yours look like a good interpretation.

What makes a bumble, except from palmered hackle?

dd

Hi dd - as I understand it, a bumble is a palmered hackle, where the hackle is wound over a body that is quite full in itself, so in this case peacock herl, or it can be ostrich herl, or if it is seal's fur, then the fur is picked out...

Palmered flies are some of the first ever recorded flies, but these particular types were given the name 'bumble' in the county of Derbyshire, in the UK. Can't remember when it was first recorded, late 1800 iirc? But don't quote me on that date! Roger Woolley was from Derbyshire, so I am guessing that his patterns may be closest to the original Derbyshire Bumbles.

They were originally tied with hen hackle, but then Halford got hold of them and tied them with a cock hackle and fished them dry. Then over in Ireland, Kingsmill-Moore took them, and wound two complementary cock hackles together, with a soft hackle at the collar, to produce his beautiful series of Irish Bumbles, as featured in his book, 'A man may fish'.

It is the connection between Derbyshire and Ireland that interests me, because I live in Derbyshire, and, er, go to Ireland a lot!

Andrew.