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Fly Fishing Usage: Wet Flies, Buzzers & NymphsFulling Mill Equivalent: 103Part No: EF-6010Manufacturer: The Essential Fly
The Alexandra is a real attractor pattern, primarily use for Brown Trout. The Alexandra fly was named after Queen Alexandra when she was a Princess. The Alexandra was originally called the Lady of the Lake. In its early days of use the Alexandra trout fly was considered too deadly and was banned on many waters. The Alexandra is used by many still water anglers and is really good as a sea-trout fly.
The Alexandra can be used to catch Rainbow Trout
The Alexandra can be used to catch Brown Trout
The Alexandra can be used to catch Sea Trout
Despite all the various fly patterns designed to imitate insects and other creatures trout feed on, there are times when the fish just don't seem interested in anything you offer. This usually occurs on days with a depressed or quickly falling barometer, or on the sweltering dog days of summer. Most of us have experienced days like these and know the frustration they can cause. These are the times when the angler needs to resort to a different tactic by employing the flyfisher's secret weapon . . . the attractor pattern, the Alexandra is an attractor fly pattern.
Attractor patterns like Alexandra are designed to do exactly what their name implies, attract a fish's attention. Once the fish has been duped into taking notice of the fly the likelihood of a strike increases significantly. Attractors are tied a bit gaudy usually, with more flash than normal patterns. They don't imitate any specific insect, but are designed to look a bit like many possible food items.
The trout finds most of its food beneath the surface of the water, sometimes by grubbing around the weed-beds, at other times by rising in water to take nymphs and pupae on their way to the surface
The wet flies which include Alexandra fall into various categories: larval and pupal forms of various aquatic insects; drowned adults or even swamped stillborn flies; and drowned terrestrials such as beetles. Many do not represent anything in nature, but are classed as attractor flies or lures, designed to tempt the fish to take out of curiosity. A number of the silver-bodied flies can emulate small fry or minnows. Most of the dry flies have a wet-fly equivalents. The use of heavier hooks, softer hen hackles instead of cock, and in the case of winged flies a backward-sloping wing, changes the dry fly into a wet one which sinks below the sufrace of the water. Cock hackles are used for these patterns but they are taken from the very young bird where the individual fibres are very soft.
There are two main areas of wet-fly fishing. Firstly, there are the wild rain-fed rivers and streams where it is difficult to see a fish rise let alone see a minute dry fly on the surface. On such waters, wet flies are used almost exclusively upstream and down, as necessity or terrain dictates. The second main area of wet-fly fishing is on atill waters like lakes, lochs and reservoirs, where the angler uses a team of wet flies just below the surface.
On wild streams while searching for the natural Brownie, soft-hackled wet flies like the Partridge and Orange, the Snipe and Purple, the Black Spider, a wet Coch-y-Bonddu, and many others are used.
Always fish a dry-fly pattern when you see a trout rising during a hatch of natural insects. However, when the trout refuses to rise to a dry fly, fishing just below the surface with a wet fly can often work. When no activity is obvious, it is a case for the wet fly, pure and simple.
The soft, game-bird hackles of many wet flies have the necessary mobility in the water. They pulsate and 'kick' in the current, attracting the fish by their very movement. They look alive and edible; the two key properties for a successful fly.
For the more adventurous among you we have provided tying specifications for the Alexandra. Remember at The Essential Fly we sell the Alexandra at incredible prices with a top quality fly and service to back it up. It is certainly worth tying the Alexandra yourself to understand the pleasure of catching a fish with your own tied fly, however at the price we sell flies it is only worth tying one or two Alexandra as your can spend more time fishing instead of tying flies - buy volume online with us.Hook Sizes6 to 14Silk ThreadBlackTailRed Ibis substitute and two or three peacock sword-tail fibresBodyFlat silver tinselRibOval silver tinselHackleBlack cock or henWingGreen peacock sword flanked with strips f red Ibis substitute (scarlet swan)
Hook Sizes
6 to 14
Silk Thread
Black
Tail
Red Ibis substitute and two or three peacock sword-tail fibres
Body
Flat silver tinsel
Rib
Oval silver tinsel
Hackle
Black cock or hen
Wing
Green peacock sword flanked with strips f red Ibis substitute (scarlet swan)
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The Essential Fly is an award winning fly fishing company. We have won awards for customer service so if you need help and are not keen on the Internet for ordering then use our telephone ordering department (UK) 0845 401 4001 International +44 (0)113 816 0053 for you to order Alexandra if you need assistance and for all of your fly fishing needs, our team is always ready to help. Our telephone ordering service operates Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm Grenwich Mean Time (GMT).The Alexandra is available for purchase for £0.45 and has a part number of EF-6010. The Alexandra has an online saving of £0.14 (24%) when purchasing the Alexandra from www.theessentialfly.com.[/IF} As well as Alexandra
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