Julian Tapping

Julian Tapping

  • Joined: September 4, 2017
  • Articles: 298

Foxy’s Horror

A fly designed by Rod Fox, of Hunter Valley Fly Fishing Club, appropriately named Foxy’s Horror. Great bass fly for rivers.

Foam for the body (the yellow for visibility), zonker strip for the tail and cactus chenille for the underbelly.[...]

Flashback Pheasant Tail Nymph

Source: The Fly Tyers Bible, p. 96-97

This pattern is a variation of the classic Pheasant Tail Nymph. It’s body, tail and rib are the same as the original, but the thorax of this pattern includes a few strands of pearl Lurex laid over the peacock herl.[...]

Red Tag

Tying instructions: Diptera.co.uk,
The Fly Tyers Bible, pp. 36-37

Throughout Australia the Red Tag is excellent fished to surface feeding trout in rivers or still water (it is also a must-have for herring!). The fly is a half imitator and half attractor; the red tag, the peacock herl and to some extent the brown hackle attracting the fish.[...]

Black Tadpole

Source: The Fly Tyers Bible, p.188-89.

Designed by Terry Griffiths and Peter Gathercole in the 1960s, the Tadpole takes the use of turkey marabou for highly mobile wings and tails to it’s logical conclusion. The Tadpole’s tail is highly mobile and much longer than its body, giving it plenty of movement in still water.[...]

Weed Fly

weed flies

If you are chasing Luderick then this is the fly you need!

Designed to represent the natural seaweed that they eat this fly just has to be put in front of them and they will eat it.

Tied on sturdy saltwater hooks, all you have to do once you hook up is try and keep them away from the rocks.[...]