A gammarus (scud) pattern with distinctive legs made using a small DIY tool
Nick Thomas
Scud fly
- Run on the thread at the eye and take around the bend in touching turns.
- Colour the ribbon with an olive marker pen and tie in along the shank with the free end hanging back over the bend.
- Tie in five beads of chain along the top of the hook with thread wraps between each of the beads. Colour the beads with a brown marker pen.
- Add a little dubbing behind and in front of the beads.
- Whip finish, remove the thread and give the exposed thread wraps a light coat of varnish or superglue.
- Set up the hook and armature in the vice.
- Attach the flex floss to the pin with a couple of overhand knots. Wind the flex floss forward around the fly body and the pin under tension. Secure the end to the pin with a fly clip.
- Apply UV-resin along the back and sides and cure to fix the leg loops in place.
- Cut the flex floss along the pin, remove the pin and reattach the tying thread.
- Fold the organza over the body, tie in and remove the waste end. Whip finish and remove the thread. Colour the head with an olive marker pen.
- Add a second layer of UV-varnish to form the final shrimp shape.
brown trout
grayling
| Hook | Fasna F-120 #12 |
| Thread | 12/0 tan |
| Body | 1.5mm stainless steel bead chain and natural pine squirrel dubbing |
| Legs | Fulling Mill olive Micro Flex Floss |
| Shell | 3mm olive organza ribbon and UV-resin |
