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The fly at the top is a Brown Coghlan, the middle is a Grey Coghlan and the lower is a fly copied from a photo (thank you Paul Vincent Brammer). The first two are from the Cork Collection. The bottom one is from a wallet intended for the river Teifi in Wales. I was interested in the similarities and so tied each to comapare them 'in person' (incidentally, they all say hello).
Was the Welsh fly an Irish escapee? Are their similarities mere coincidence? Or was there a cross-fertilisation of styles across the Irish Sea?
Clearly, I have too much time on my hands.
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Lovely flies...the journey between the two countries is a well used route so we would be foolish to think there was no crossover.
Nice Gary!
Looking good. Great job!
Beautiful flies! Where can I find the patterns, I'd like to try them.
Dipping carefully into the winter tying season. This psuedo-Ghost will take a swim on the functional but ghastly Partridge code M 5/0 hoping to entice a winter steelhead.
Sporting some vintage tinsel to offset the plethora of subs.
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Easily the most proportional ghost fly I've seen
What a stunning ghost fly!! Well done! Not one I have tied yet, but ill be referencing this photo when I do! Thanks for sharing this!!! 🤘😎
Awsome...does anyone fish 5/0 😂
Clean tie 👌 is that quetzal sub in the wing?
Stunning fly!
She's a stunner!
Awesome!!
Simply fantastic work, Adrian!
WOW. Is it possible to see a pattern-description somewhere??
Superb work.
Stunning sir 👍
Thunder and Lightning (Irish) #1/0 Byron Bjerke Playfair Limerick . In my opinion it's a Corker!
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Lovely tying Greg
3/5 Another unknown Rogan size 2. This ones a little more interesting as it has two large Toucan feathers instead of crow in the underwing. Mr Rogan Marijn Nieuwenhuisen advises that although the use of Toucan is well documented he's yet to see an example using it.
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Sweet little thing 😊
hot diggity! you're quickly becoming our resident Rogan compendium , Doc!
Pleased to see you haven't got Tony's 'fatfinger' complex.🤪Nice work Mr. Jones fairly wacking em out lately.
That’s cool
I like the way you set those underwings. Looking goood!
Rogan "Erne Pattern" (Francis no.2)
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Lovely job sir
Stunner!
Hi lads, I am back again:)
A long fishing season, tons of trout flies and loads of tube flies later I am finally back to the silk, wax and feathers.
Did a 3/o Durham on a Partridge M this evening. Hope you have missed my scruffy contributions;)
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Croeso nol 👊👊
Excellent come back, dear friend. No water this year 😔
A wholesome fly, Petter.
Nydelig bunden!
Carimang on a size 2 Blue Heron hook. Been itching to tie this for eons, but a suitable wing material alternative was tough; went with caperacaile tail which, though a touch dark, ain’t bad. Head a bit bigger than I’d have liked but chiffed over all.
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Very nicely done Anthony. I love that pattern.
Nice 👍is that bustard hackle on this ??
A beauyt!
Nice! Love the sweep that you achieved.
Jeez, you’re on a roll man! One of your best IMO.
Unknown Rogan size 2.
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Very nicely done.
Inspiring
Lovely fly❤️
Rogan "Erne Pattern" (Francis no.1)
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Lovely job sir
Awesome
Terrific job!
3/0 Something-or-Other from our resident collector’s collection (is that a pleonasm?)
Richard Aeron Lougher Jones posted a vintage one of these 2-3 years back and I finally got around to tying it.
Wish I had a paler green in wing. I swear there was a tiny red front section, too, so put it in. Used tad macaw instead of red toucan in throat, and kept the jay exceedingly sparse per the original. Far side shot of the tail is much better.
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Lovely job sir. Cant wait to see the full set. Dave Carne tied me a replica of the Baker I believe which sits at the centre of the frame.
Awsomesauce, Mr! Love the macaw/Jay combo! Very cool fly.
Yowza! Super.
I tied this and it looked crap - this one's cracking. Dx
Very interesting pattern and beautiful fly 🤩
Beautiful job!
SUPER!
Absolutely gorgeous fly dude!!!!
Closer to a tautology, but not actually. What a wonderful fly, mate.
Well this one rang the bell!! Superb 👌 - can you share your dressing?
Nice Anthony. The reverse side looks better on all of my flies for some reason😁
Dang!
Nankeen on Blue Heron hook. Really pleased with this jobby! Used cinnamon RN pheasant rump in place of pond heron or lighter heckle from nankeen night heron. Used penciled palm, a darker hybrid pheasant tail, and mallard. It does have horns in illustration!
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Um, yeah. Ok, this one is really cool! I mean, really cool. 🔥🔥
That crest lights it up!
This is absolutely fabilous! 😍👌🙂
Fantasic
Beautiful work!
😍 😍 😍
Beautifull!
Beautiful tie man!!!
Fantastic!!
Awesome🔥🔥
Beautiful lines Anthony.
That is sick! Love the wing and crest
This weekend’s flies, minus a Gold Riach that had a really bad folded wing. The gold ranger is size 1 and has a built wing. It was a bit hard, and the wing is a little big, but overall I think it’s good. The snow fly is 3/0 and, I tried to follow one of the antiques on the website. The grub is size 3 and is based on two different antiques I’ve seen. If anyone wants the grub or the snow fly to fish with, let me know!
Torrish 2/0. First attempt at this one , wing looks too “fat” and short to me??
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I think if you sit WT in the wing and do away with that knife edge profile the whole wing comes down a bit then it works much better? The length is ok but it's just sitting too high.
Bit steep wing edge maybe, but I like it.
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Spot on - knocks mine from way back into a cocked hat. Dx
Lovely tying Swiss
This is amazing.
Great flow and clean tying 🤗💪💪💪
Dunkeld 2/0. A few warts but nice to get things rolling with the first in a while.
Bronze Pirate
on a GS 1/0 limerick
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Brilliant work. Dx
I absolutely love it! Well done 🙂
First fly since forever. Shannon no. 3, Ephemera/Blacker. Omitted the optional CotR, and only six toppings. Did them one by one, the slips of stuff after. Was aiming for more taper and more general Shazam, but I’ll take it. Feels good to produce a complete fly again, lol.
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Stunning come back Stig
What a way to come back sir 👌👌
Gotgeous fly!! Beautifully tied!!!! What a way to come back!
Low Water Logie based on the Murdoch version shown in the Hardy book with the slim wing and no JC. Nothing too exciting, but keeps the thread going.
Blacker’s No. 1 for the Thurso on a nice antique Limerick I found in a bag of other hooks. Added a rib as there’s none given in the pattern description 🤷♂️
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Beautiful Ad! You’re a machine!
Boom!!
Now that is awesome! 👏🥳
Stunner sir 👍
Wow, This is cool!!
Awesome
Beauty!!
Great fly!
Brilliant 🙂
Absolutely gorgeous!!
Awesome fly Ad, so beautiful!!!
Nice! 7111 rework?🤔
Little inky boy, size 1. I used a couple subs, but the body is dyed black trout gut. Everything after the throat gave me trouble, but it worked out in the end. I think this is one of the better flies I’ve tied.
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Lovely job...looks the part.
Looks good to me, love the wings!!!
I really like this. The body is pretty cool. Never seen that before. Nice job!
Yes, great work! I love the contrast & texture to the body, very different.
Holy crap, dude! THAT'S how that's tied. Dang. Your best yet. Literally, the nicest I've seen it done. Let's see is Dave Carne can keep up.
Superb!
Certainly one of the best Inky Bois I’ve seen.