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Hi

I’m alive but a major setback has put me out of the fly tying game for the foreseeable future

Mice destroyed approx 3.5k of materials on me , I’m still on the sick after the harrowing cancer treatment so I simply cannot afford to replace the materials, besides  that I refuse to pay the ridiculous prices that are being charged for saddles because of the latest hairdressing fad

I’ll leave the website up for anyone wanting to use the patterns

Thankyou all for your support during my fly tying career

Andy Elliott

Jonathan Kerr ..check you email ASAP .if theres noting in your inbox check the spam mail folder

Andy

Launched the kayak from Portmuck yesterday evening

I launched at low water and the fishings always slow to start  so tied on a size 6 Tungsten beaded chartreuse bugbeel and had  a surprising amount of small pollock

I had one decent one which bend the 9 weight double.  I was expecting  10lber to surface ..but no

Caught my first fish on a kinky muddler

Great to get out again

Andy

Well the reason is .. I had to tie a few big orders , so got a bit fed up tying.  they were all flies i’ve posted before so no point in taking any pictures

On Monday I went for a series of scans , have to wait now until the 6th July to find out if the treatment has worked . I think it has feeling a hell of a lot better but still suffer from fatigue

The Irish International Fly FDair is next weekend so I have to start  tying for it, there’s mnot a great market for saltwater flies atthe show so I mainly tie up a load of sea trout stuff

Bugbeels and inverted Bugbeels and a few shrimp patterns

While I had the Olive , Lavender . yellow and white capes to hand I threw this together as a bunker style fly , big flat profile and mostly all hackle construction . making it very light and easy to cast

I’ve been askedto do a SBS for the super hair baitfish pattern in the post below .. I will try and get it done this week

tight lines

Andy