Daring Duffer Series - The Red Tags

[William Anderson]

Stefan asked that I post the flies which include a red tag. So with no further adieu, The Red Tags.
















Very nice.

[hankaye]

dd, Howdy;

WOW ... pretty, pretty flies!!
I am going to have to learn the skill of
the 'Bumbles'. I truly enjoy seeing them.

Thank you for getting them displayed.

w, Howdy;

Thanks for taking the pics and posting them for us !

hank

[daringduffer]

Thank you William (and Hank).

The second fly was posted before and was a serious effort. The first one and the last one are not tied as either fishing flies or flies to show. They are just an exercise in blending different hackle shades just to see what happened. I wanted "blur" and I think I got it. It was fun and done in haste (to be me). The blurriest one (the last) is tied on a size 12 Partridge L3AY (Captain Hamilton standard dry fly barbless hook). The first is probably tied on a Drennan Specimen hook. They are ribbed with copper wire to catch in the hackle. Red wool tag. If I had intended them to be fishing flies they would not have been so heavily hackled.

The little one is my first effort on a fly designed by H. A. Rolt. "Rolt's Witch". Tag of red wool, body: peacock sword and hackle: honey dun palmered. I ribbed it with gold wire. The correct dressing is to be found here:http://archive.org/stream/graylingfishi ... 5/mode/2up Mr Rolt writes about it's excellence on pg 48:http://archive.org/stream/graylingfishi ... 1/mode/2up. I liked the book very much (borrowed it from out national agro-forestry library). It was attached to one of the flies I picked up to send to William so I included it.

dd

[Kelly L.]

The first and last flies are my favorite. I think the color is very pleasing, and wonderfully tied.

[letumgo]

NEATO! I love seeing the variations in each of these flies.

Stefan - You have been holding out on us! Please keep sharing your creations with us.

William - Thank you for taking the time to photograph and post these flies, for us to enjoy.

[chase creek]

Great addition! That one with the turned up eye looks like it has attitude.
Very nice work.

[Ruard]

Nice flies DD, do you fish them wet also??

Greeting

[daringduffer]

That one with the turned up eye looks like it has attitude.

Yes - attitude without problem!

Nice flies DD, do you fish them wet also??

Usually I fish them dry in small sizes (16, 18) in the autumn for grayling. As wet flies I usually use size 14 and 12. Just sub-surface they can be deadly. Perch, roach, ide, grayling and trout - they all eat these fancy flies. My largest grayling so far took a size 18 Red Tag (Kaitum River up north) fished dry. That same day I caught another beautiful grayling on a wet fly devised by Gunnar Johnson. Maybe William can post that one next. It is called "Knekestorparen".

dd