I don’t troll (yet) but do a lot of spinning. I’m, as the name suggests, a bit of an all-rounder, bait, salmon and trout fly fishing too. I like to spin in estuaries and sea lochs but lose a lot of tackle. For that reason I use cheep lures a lot of the time. One of my most successful is the single hook terror. I fish 2 of these on a 5 foot cast below a wye lead. Great sand eel imitations, easy to make and so cheap it does not matter if you lose them

Take a size 6 hook, cut strip of silver foil 1/8 inch wide, apply some super glue to the hook shank, warp the foil up the shank to make a silver body. Take 2 white and one blue feather, tie them in behind the hook eye to be about twice the length of the hook. That’s it. They take minutes to make A bit like up market mackerel feathers. Cast out and fish like a diving minnow. Deadly for sea trout, Pollock etc. Expect to lose a lot of them but it does not matter.

Cheers

allrounder

Hi allrounder

These sound good. Any chance of a photograph?

Click on the icon below the B above (Host Image) click on file name and click host and hopefully image will be hosted

also interested in a photo as always developing my game

Heres a photo. I just used plastic silver foil from a kit kat wrapper and some black thread

Excellent looking fly. Thanks for posting the photo

It does look nice. I plan to do a bit of piking on the union canal this winter and may give them a go on their with the fly rod.