Thursday 16 March 2017

Appleby Olive

A pattern which I had heard about last season but never got the opportunity to see or use, I happened to mention to Steven when I was over in Cumbria for the Furled Leader tuition as I knew he had caught a couple of lovely fish on it including his personal best river brown trout a 4lbs + fish.

I finally got all the ingredients together for myself and got a couple tied up in preparation for the new season in just over a week's time here in Yorkshire

The Appleby Olive:
Hook  #16 Hends BL154.
Bead copper coated tungsten 3mm.
Tail: Paintbrush fibres
Body: olive dubbing blend, basically a mix of dyed rabbit and squirrel (golden olive and cinnamon) with a little red, black, olive and peacock glister and/or ice dub for added flash.
Rib: Madeira metallic: (from a sewing shop)



The dubbing can be purchased direct from Andrew Ellis the creator of the Appleby Olive, I contacted Andrew via his Facebook page Andrew's Scruffy Dubbing  and together with another couple of dubbing's they arrived with a nice letter in a couple of days.












The  metallic Madeira I managed to purchase from my local sewing shop via their online page



another pattern I tied up using some of the other dubbing I purchased


5 comments:

  1. That's as good an Appleby olive as I've ever seen George, be interesting to see if it works on the Yorkshire rivers as well as the Cumbrian ones.
    Steven Dawson.

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    1. Im hoping so mate, if not then I will have to do some cross border raiding into Cumbria...lol

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  2. Anytime, you know that.

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  3. Love your newest creations, may I look forward to seeing them in action?

    Very refreshing and simple name..Andrews Scruffy Dubbing. I like that.

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    1. Im looking forward to giving them a swim Alan, our season still has another week before it opens, so really looking forward to getting out again.

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