Sybai Saltwater Flash hair Candy

I recently put together a new step by step video on how to tie a Surf Candy style fly using Sybai's excellent Saltwater Flash hair and also featuring Solarez UV resin.

Pop over to the shop if you'd like to give this fly a go with these two brilliant products!

Sybai Ghost hair

One of my suppliers here at Silver Scales is a great company called Sybai and they have a great range of mostly unique products.
One such product is called Ghost hair and they recently brought out a Saltwater version, in fact they have added a Saltwater version to several of their range including the awesome Flash hair! The Saltwater ranges are not only perfect for salty stuff but also Pike and other predator flies. Both the above mentioned products are available in the Silver Scales shop.

I have put together a new video featuring one way of using these two brilliant materials.

Hope you like it and if you have a minute please visit the Silver Scales shop to check out our great products range and subscribe to our news letter to be updated when new items are added to our stock and keep up with special offers and other news!

Glass Candies

Here's a little pattern that will catch a few fish when they're fry feeding. Made with Sybai Saltwater Flash hair, soft and mobile with loads of flash! Size 4 hook. Available in the shop.

Craft fur Baitfish video

As promised in the previous post I have put together a new video featuring Craft fur in the shape of Silver scales Crafty Minnow Fur. Also featured is the new Saltwater flash hair from Sybai

Hope you enjoy it!

Happy New Year !

Polar Flash Dubbing

Here's a great material by Czec company Sybai, their Polar Flash Dubbing.
This is a super fine and soft material with superb translucent properties. The Dubbing also has a super fine flash blended in. Not as short as normal Dubbings this is designed specifically for Bonefish shrimp patterns and small Baitfish imitations and is cut slightly longer. Very easy to use and create some great fly patterns from, the limit is just your imagination ! Available in a wide range of colours.

Here is a small Baitfish pattern tied with the Polar flash Dubbing, once submerged in the water the fibres will open out giving a broader but more transparent profile with great movement even at 2.5 inches long !

Transparent Baitfish fly

I'm not sure who the originator of this type of pattern is, but no doubt it was designed with Sea Trout in mind, however it's one of those patterns that is far more versatile than perhaps the originator intended. Certainly it will take Bass and Pollock here in the U.K but no doubt many other species around the world will find it's simple elegant form attractive enough to munch on !

So here's a variation that I have come up with. The body is made from Sybai Polar Flash Dubbing which is a beautiful soft translucent material that I think suits the design parameters of this pattern down to the ground. In the core is a tiny pinch of Deer Creek Laser Dub in red, a very thin mylar tube is used for the tail to which I have inserted a grizzly hackle to form the Caudal fin. The head is finished with a small amount of Deer Creek fine flex UV resin. I'll certainly be carrying a few colour variants of this fly in my box next season !