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Fly Fishing Usage: Beadhead LurePart No: EF-2000Manufacturer: The Essential Fly
The Bead Head (BH) Appetiser is based on the Appetiser created by Bob Church. The Bead Head (BH) Appetiser is also known as Goldhead Appetiser
The Appetiser was devised by Bob Church, known to be one of Britain's leading still-water anglers. This fly imitates fry of coarse fish such as the roach. On its day this can be a deadly pattern.
The Bead Head (BH) Appetiser can be used to catch Rainbow Trout
The Bead Head (BH) Appetiser is a type of lure or streamer fly. Streamers or lures fall into two categories, imitator streamers or attractor streamers. The Black, Olive, Natural and White Woolly Buggers Zonker are imitator streamers. An imitator streamer represenst a specific type of food, which is preyed upon by the trout, typically a small fish for example. As Trout are territorial and they will defend their territory against invading fish the fly-fishermen can use this knowledge to their advantage. Using an imitator streamer a trout can be fooled into attacking what he thinks is fry invading its territory. The alternative to an imitator fly is an attractor fly or as some fishermen call them 'piss them off fly'. A brightly coloured attractor fly is retrieved past the nose of a large brown trout or rainbow in hiding can excite a trout into striking if it thinks its feeding territory is under attack stimulating a big hit. Sometimes Trout will strike out of simple curiosity just to see if it is edible even though it does not look like their normal food. Sometimes bright, flashy flies drive them crazy or just annoy them. Some for example a Red Zonkers are attractors streamer fly patterns, these are not designed to represent a particular baitfish but to excite a predatory trout into striking using brightly colored and reflective materials in their design.
The brass bead head fly types which includes the Bead Head (BH) Appetiser has become one of the most popular fly types in overall trout fly sales. This is because the weight of the brass bead helps keep the Bead Head (BH) Appetiser very close to the bottom where trout are used to seeing and capturing naturals.
The flash of the brass bead in Bead Head (BH) Appetiser has also proven to be very attractive to several other kinds of sport fish. Its possible that it just makes the Bead Head (BH) Appetiser easier for the fish to locate. Roman Moser states that the roots of the Gold Head or Pearl Head flies lie in the Northern Italian area. At the turn of the century the fishermen of Piemont, Bergamo, Brescia and Friulia fished in their alpine rivers with a bead headed nymph for spin fishing. The beads came from the glass making area of Murano (Venice). This type of nymph was then used by Roman in 1978 when the Roman Moser bottom downstream technique was born as shown in the video "New ways with the caddises and new ways with mayflies". Because the flies were light made of glass Roman experimented with Cabela's spinner bodies made of brass, goldheads were born.
Nobody understood this until he published the making of that Gold Head in the German magazine "Fliegenfischer" January/March issue 1985. The article was titled: "New ways of fishing the caddis". He found out that when sedge flies were hatching, the Gold Head was most successfull, possibly because the bead resembled the air bubble thorax of the natural nymph. The beadhead is now used on many types of flies, beadhead nymphs and beadhead lure or beadhead streamers and this the Bead Head (BH) Appetiser.
For the more adventurous among you we have provided tying specifications for the Bead Head (BH) Appetiser. Remember at The Essential Fly we sell the Bead Head (BH) Appetiser at incredible prices with a top quality fly and service to back it up. It is certainly worth tying the Bead Head (BH) Appetiser 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 Bead Head (BH) Appetiser as your can spend more time fishing instead of tying flies - buy volume online with us.Hook SizesLong shank 6 to 10Silk ThreadBlackTailMixed orange, green & silver Mallard fibresBodyWhite chenilleRibOval silver tinselHackleAs tailWingWhite marabou with grey squirrel over
Hook Sizes
Long shank 6 to 10
Silk Thread
Black
Tail
Mixed orange, green & silver Mallard fibres
Body
White chenille
Rib
Oval silver tinsel
Hackle
As tail
Wing
White marabou with grey squirrel over
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Trout lures vary considerably from woolly buggers that could be imitating small fish, caterpillars, leeches or other prey to lures like blobs which are not imitating anything particularly but are intended to stimulate a trout predatory instincts, it sees a bright colour flashing through the water or across the surface and hits it with its aggressive nature!
Lures are extremely varied, colours can be highly sparkling using materials like fritz or fluorescent hot spots. Beadhead lures have the added 'sparkle' from the beadhead and the weight which can help the lure sink more quickly to get to where the fish are feeding.
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 Bead Head (BH) Appetiser 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 Bead Head (BH) Appetiser is available for purchase for £0.66 and has a part number of EF-2000. The Bead Head (BH) Appetiser has an online saving of £0.09 (12%) when purchasing the Bead Head (BH) Appetiser from www.theessentialfly.com.[/IF} As well as Bead Head (BH) Appetiser
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£0.75 £0.66
Available in Fly Size(s) 8, 10, 12.
£0.75 £0.55
Available in Fly Size(s) 10, 12, 14, 16.
Available in Fly Size(s) 10, 12.
