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Video SBS Craft fur Sandeel

Here's a great way to use our Crafty Minnow fur to tie a Sandeel pattern for those Bass!

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Silver Scales Fly Life Hats

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Having received several requests for an item of clothing featuring our Fly Life Logo we have commissioned some Stylish Beechfield Sandwich peak Caps with the Logo embroidered onto the front panel.

The Caps currently come in a Bright Royal Blue which we think offsets the Logo nicely. We are open to requests for other colours so Please let us know what colours you'd like to see.

From a practical point of view the Caps will offer protection from the Sun and Wind and even the odd shower. The dark under peak will also provide shade for your eyes and help you spot more fish when coupled with Polarised glasses.

One size fits all with an adjustable Velcro strap at the rear.

Available in the shop now.

Trilobal Hollow Predator fly SBS

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The following Step by step is for a really easy and fun to tie Baitfish pattern that uses barely any material making it super light and easy to cast and yet creates a great profile and movement! This fly will translate into larger or smaller versions depending on your requirements.

You will need:

Silver Scales Big fish fibre x 2 colours, Sybai Trilobal wing hair x 2 colours, a bit of dubbing, Veevus 140 thread, some flash and some eyes and a Sakuma 420 hook in your choice of size.

Step 1: Attach your thread about a third of the way along the shank from the eye of the hook. I'm using a 2/0 Sakuma 420 here.

Step 2: Add some dubbing to your thread, I'm using a bright orange and this will show as a hot spot if the fly is approached from behind hopefully triggering an attack!

Step 3: Build a Dubbing bump, the bigger the bump the more your materials will flare later.

Step 4:  Take your 2 colours of Big fish fibre and cut off two lengths of each.

Step 5: Blend them by stripping out a few strands and laying them on top of each other.

Step 6: Tie in a short bunch 60/40 bias towards the rear of the fly, right in front of the Dubbing bump and cinch it down tight so the fibre flares up over the bump.

Step 7: fold the front bunch down underneath the hook and secure. Again cinch it down tight to the Dubbing bump so it flares.

Step 8: Add some longer strands of flash in your choice of colours to form a tail, Silver scales Flashabou is ideal.

Step 9: Now take your first choice colour of Sybai Trilobal wing hair and cut a short bunch, 3 - 4 inches ( longer if tying a bigger fly than me, or shorter if smaller ), and tie it in on top of the fly 60/40 bias towards the rear of the fly.

Step 10: Repeat underneath the fly with your 2nd choice colour.

Step 11: Now fold all the pieces back and secure down.

Step 12: Repeat the previous steps but use slightly shorter pieces of the Trilobal hair but before folding the pieces back split the forward facing pieces into two as below.

Step 13: Fold the split pieces back so they sit down the side of the fly forming the rest of the head and then secure with a thread cone in front of the material next to the eye, this will hold the fibre back keeping it in place and also give a nice rounded profile to the head.

Step 14: Now comb the Trilobal hair, blending the layers into one and shaping the head, note that a little of the fibre will come out in the comb, don't panic this is normal and loss should be minimal.

Step 15: Whip finish and add your eyes and finish the nose of the fly with some Solarez.

The finished fly!

New products now in stock!

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Two New products have just landed here at Silver Scales!

We have Supreme Wing hair and Superfine Trilobal wing hair, both from the Sybai Stable.

We really like this new material from Sybai! Supreme Wing hair ( below ), is the perfect material for all Pike and Predator flies, soft and supple with great movement. Fine translucent fibres mixed with a fine subtle flash blend to really make your flies stand out whilst at the same time give your flies a natural appearance. A little goes a long way with this material so don't over do it when using this fibre! Easily creates good volume and profile. Great range of colours.

Superfine Trilobal wing hair ( below ), Another great fibre from Sybai! Bulky heads are very popular on Pike flies because they create a great profile to get the attention of the Predator, pushing plenty of water. This soft voluminous fibre is a super fine synthetic and offers advantages over conventional natural materials commonly used for creating bulky heads. It sheds water easier than natural equivalents and also holds its shape better. You only need a very small amount of this material to create bulk so it goes a long way and is very good value! So easy to use and create the profile you need!

Check them both out in the shop and view the great range of colours available in both materials!

Sybai are renowned for their unique products in the fly tying world and these two are no different!