a pretty little wet fly
The Woodcock and Yellow is a pretty little winged wet fly which should work well on a summers evening when the sedge flies are hatching.
To be honest, the Woodcock and Yellow isn’t a pattern that I have had in my fly box much before, but I like the look of the pattern and it should be useful come those long summer evenings when the sedge are around. Similar to that other great sedge pattern, the Invicta (invicta being Latin for invincible!) it sports a creamy yellow body and mottled brown wing, and it is another pattern that I am looking forward to tying onto my leader and having a cast or two with for the brown trout in the forthcoming season.
Again, the Woodcock and Yellow consists of a tippet tail, as do many other wild brown trout flies. A rib of fine gold wire wound over a yellow dubbed body gives the fly a nice look of transparency and sparkle when wet. A wing made from a woodcock slip and in this case a dark brown hen hackle completed the fly.
I enjoyed tying the Woodcock and Yellow on a cold, stormy, winter evening and the thoughts it generated of the summer evenings to come to be spent by the waters edge, chasing those slashing, sedge hunting brown trout.
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