Willie Gunn Gold

Willie Gunn Gold

Now it's a new fishing year and I would start with a pattern that are a great spring pattern for the most rivers around the world. Black, orange, yellow and gold is a popular colours in flies for Salmon and Sea trout and i think many of you out there have a couple of flies with these colours in your fly boxes. 

When i fished River Spey some years ago i asked the Ghillie on the Beat what fly I should use and his answer was a Willie Gunn with a golden body. And when a friend of mine was going to fish River Tweed earlier this year I made him som Golden Gunns to try. He got four Salmons in one day and also the biggest for the season on the Beat and of course it was on the Willie Gunn Gold. So when I go back to Spey in Mars this year I will have a whole box of Willie Gunn Gold with me just to be sure.

Pattern Recipe:

Tube:Gold Eumer Tear Drop Tube or Gold Body&Cone Tube.

On Plastic Tubes i use Spectra Holo Braid half the Body and Holo Gold Dubbing on the other half.

Hackle: First Hackle a Hot Orange Soft Hackle tied in after the Yellow Fox Hair. Second Hackle Balck Soft Hackle tied in as a collar after the the wing is done.

Wing: Yellow Mirror Flash. Yellow Fox Hair. Hot Orange Fox Hair. Orange Mirror Flash. Black Fox Hair with 4 strands of Peacook Mirror Flash on top.

Sides: JC (optional)

Head: Gold Cone Head.

If you want to tie the flies on hooks use a black or golden one and use Spectra Holo Braid and Holo Gold Dubbing. Use Varnish in Black or Orange for the head.

Soon the first rivers in UK and Ireland will open for the season and if you going to try your luck there maybe you should start the season with a Willie Gunn Gold on the leader.