PINK.

[DAZ]

Hi lads.

Been playing around on the vice today,incorporating pink in to the patterns,a mate of mine does very well on the seatrout using this colour on is local,so I am going to give it a good swim on mine.

Do any of you use this colour in your pattern's for the Salmon? if so how successful is it.

DAZ.

[ibrox]

Nice fly DAZ i havent used pink in any o my flies but dont see why not . let us know how they do.

[elwyman]

Nice looking fly Daz.

There's a fly called the Pink Panther, popular on the Tyne I believe.

[scotty]

looks good to me daz, i use pink flying Cs sometimes and they work.

scotty.

[tyneflyfisha]

The pink panther glows a lovely shade of orange in peat stained run off water . My mate has had a 35lb +fish off the tyne (and a succession of other fish) using this fly and swears by it. Tyne rods may well have heard of a lure called the Bellingham sprat which was a similar colour (if my memory serves me right) and was very effective.

[macd]

DAZ, that is an effin beauty.

I have been using magenta- see my avatar- and a light purple arctic runner the same shade as glo-brite 15 in my NessC flies. Totally with tyneflyfisha-these shades are perfect in peaty water.

I recall seeing the pink panther in something by tommy shaw in T&S a year or two back.

Nice work

Ross

[ibrox]

It looks great in the picture but it's even better looking in the hand. Daz kindly sent me one up among others but i don't know whether to fish them or frame them ;D ;D ;D, thanks Daz .

Mike

[salmonshrimp]

The all Pink Allys has taken fish in Canada, Russia, Norway and on the Findhorn to name but a few.

[roecaster]

A Friend uses a fly he calls "The Poof Shrimp!" This is basically a Curry's Red with all the red componants replaced with pink. He reckons it does the biz for fresh fish.

Of course the Light Wlkinson Shrimp uses a magenta mid-hackle and has been deadly for fresh fish for years.

[Speyducer]

daz said:

Hi lads.

Been playing around on the vice today,incorporating pink in to the patterns,a mate of mine does very well on the seatrout using this colour on is local,so I am going to give it a good swim on mine.

Do any of you use this colour in your pattern's for the Salmon? if so how successful is it.

DAZ.

This may be pink, but with a tube tied that well, I think ANY colour replacing the pink would be a successful fly.

Mike

[easky]

springer01 said:

A Friend uses a fly he calls "The Poof Shrimp!" This is basically a Curry's Red with all the red componants replaced with pink. He reckons it does the biz for fresh fish.

Of course the Light Wlkinson Shrimp uses a magenta mid-hackle and has been deadly for fresh fish for years.

Silver Wilkson is a firm favourite in Ireland - not a great pix but you will get the idea

[roecaster]

Nice example Easky. Is that a dyed red G.P. tail I see? Same as my own Wilkinsons if it is. All mine have a glo-brite red head also.

Myself and a friend were commenting that we have never heard of a coloured fish taken on a Wilkinson, have you?

[easky]

yes its a red dyed GP feather, actually from a dyed orange skin of all things. I alternate between using the orange and red feathers.

Its a great fly that I have caught a lot of fish on - most of these have been fresh fish but I have also caught coloured runners as well. I use it on one particular spate river which is quite peaty and its deadly there ;D