While many fly patterns are general imitations of types of prey, the sand eel fly in this video is the result of directly observing live sand eels and attempting to closely imitate their appearance and their movement.
Sand eels have long supple bodies and normally swim with a pronounced snake-like motion that ripples flashing silver from head to tail. Quick changes of direction can produce especially striking, strobe-like flashes.
This fly creates flash by using carefully chosen, highly reflective materials for both the tail and the body. The body also combines a number of colours that merge to emulate the translucent olive, green, and white of the sand eel’s overall appearance, complete with prominent red gills. Interestingly, although sand eels have white and black eyes, I have had more success with sand eel flies having red eyes. So that is how I now usually tie this fly.
A big thank you to Maurice for the footage, and Tom for our lengthy discussions on fly patterns.
For those who would to see some more patterns check out my friends book Fly-Fishing The Gulf Coast by Tom Broderidge -
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This is the first video in some time I hope to have more to follow soon. ATB.
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