Wet
Flies
Rough Olive
(Not Illustrated)
A wet fly version of the above described Rough Olive dry
fly.
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Hook:
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Size 14 Medium Weight Wet Fly Hook (e.g. Drennan Trad Wet Fly)
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Thread:
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Olive Green (e.g. Sheer 14/0 olive green)
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Body:
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Thread underbody wrapped with Heron herl
that has been dyed olive green.
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Rib:
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Fine gold wire
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Hackle:
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Small feather from the upper surface of a
Coot’s wing (either the marginal or lesser coverts if
you want to be technical)
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Limestone Sedge
 A final Irish pattern again designed to imitate sedges
of the genus Molanna as they are emerging. These
sedges are particularly important on some of the
limestone lakes in August. This fly either real or
artificial has not had a common or anglers name before
so it seems appropriate to give it one now to match the
name of the type of lakes it hatches from in Ireland as
well as the grey wing being the same colour of the local
Irish Carboniferous limestone
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Hook:
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12 Sedge Hook (e.g. Drennan Simulator Sedge)
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Thread:
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Olive
Green (Sheer 14/0 Olive)
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Body:
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Heron herl dyed green-olive, ribbed gold
wire.
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Wing:
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Pale silver-grey (light starling or similar
feather).
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Hackle:
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Throat only -ginger cock, dyed olive.
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Kell's Blue
 Originally designed as a Baetis imitation for the
River Usk. An excellent wet fly.
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Hook: |
Size 12 or 14 Medium Weight Wet Fly Hook
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(e.g. Drennan Trad Wet Fly)
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Thread: |
Purple |
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Tail: |
Blue dun cock hackle fibres |
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Rib: |
Oval silver tinsel |
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Body: |
Heron herl |
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Hackle: |
Coch-a-Bon-Ddu cock hackle |
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see notes under
Heron and Yellow. |
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