Patterns for Fly-Tying

Quite a number of people who are coming to visit us ask me about tying patterns for our favourite flies,
so that they can tie up flies themselves before they come.
It seems to be rather difficult to find details - especially for Irish shrimp patterns -
so I have tried to provide some information here.
If you come across any more information which you think would be useful for other guests,
please email me and let me know & I'll include it here.

The following table is provided thanks to Danish tyer Tommy Olinsson who has a superb site on http://www.danishflydesign.dk He has kindly allowed me to reproduce his pictures and links to his site for the patterns. Tommy has also fished out of Blackwater Lodge!
Ally's	Ally's Special	Ally's Yellow	Apache	Bann Special
Cascade	Curry's Gold	Curry's Red	Foxford	Wilkinson Dark

The Tables below give dressings and/or links to sites with more details on some of our favourite patterns.

Ally's Shrimp Patterns
	Original	Red	Special
Tail:	Orange bucktail	Red bucktail	Red & orange bucktail
Body:	Rear: Red floss Front: Black floss	Rear: Red floss Front: Black floss	Rear: Red floss Front: Black floss
Rib:	Oval silver tinsel	Oval silver tinsel	Oval silver tinsel
Underwing:	Grey squirrel	Grey squirrel	Grey squirrel
Wing:	Golden pheasant tippets	Golden pheasant tippets	Golden pheasant tippets
Hackle:	Hot orange cock	Red cock	Red under orange cock

Hairwing Patterns
	Stoats Tail	Silver Stoats Tail	Thunder Stoat	Munro Killer	Garry Dog	Thunder & Lightning	Blue Charm	Hairy Mary
Tag:	Fine oval silver tinsel	Fine oval silver tinsel	Fine oval silver tinsel	Fine gold tinsel	Fine oval silver tinsel	Fine oval gold / Yellow floss	Oval silver tinsel	Oval gold tinsel
Tail:	Golden pheasant crest	Golden pheasant crest	Golden pheasant crest	Orange cock hackle fibres	Golden pheasant crest	Golden pheasant crest	Oval silver tinsel	Golden pheasant crest
Body:	Black floss	Silver Mylar	Black floss	Black floss	Black floss	Black floss	Black floss	Black floss
Rib:	Fine oval silver tinsel	Fine oval silver tinsel	Fine oval silver tinsel	Fine oval gold tinsel	Oval silver tinsel	Oval gold tinsel	Oval silver tinsel	Oval gold tinsel
Hackle:	Black cock	Black cock	Orange cock			Orange cock	Blue cock	Blue cock
Throat:				Orange cock under blue jay	Blue jay	Blue jay
Wing:	Black Squirrel or bucktail	Black Squirrel or bucktail	Black Squirrel or bucktail	Squirrel dyed yellow	Red under yellow bucktail	Brown squirrel or bucktail	Natural squirrel	Brown squirrel or bucktail

Shrimp Patterns
	Silver Wilkinson	Foxford Shrimp
Tail:
Body:
Rib:
Underwing:
Wing:
Hackle:
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