Pattern for BMS fly. Is dubbing required?

[watanangler]

Unfortunately my computer cannot cope with the new Fishnet site so I cant get the tying instructions for the BMS fly. Could someone send them through please. Found a trout version that required dubbing . Is there an easier way?

[Thurls]

B.M.S.
Streamer Freshwater

Hook : Nymph hook size 8 or 10.
Thread : 6/O red.
Head : Green glass bead.
Tail : Medium olive partridge SLF hank.
Rib : Gold tinsel.
Body : Medium olive partridge SLF hank.
Collar : Red thread.


Tying Instructions
1) Thread a glass bead onto the hook. Make sure when you buy glass beads that they are of a size that will fit over the barb of a hook. I get my beads from craft stores.
2) Start the thread behind the bead and secure the bead slightly. Take the thread to the back.
3) Cut a small amount of SLF hank and tie it in for the tail.
4) Tie in the tinsel.
5) Take the SLF hank. Grab some of the fibres (about the thickness of a match will do for one fly) and cut the full length off the hank. Cut the fibres into sections about the length of the shank of the hook you are using. Usually about four sections.
6) Mix up the cut lengths of SLF to form a dubbing mix.
7) Roughly dub a carrot shaped body with the SLF tapering from thin at the back to thicker at the front. Take it right up to the bead.
8) Alternatively, don't mix up the cut up SLF and use a dubbing loop and use it to form a "brush" with the SLF and tie this around the shank. Either methos works ok.
9) Rib the body with the tinsel. Don't overdo it. 3 - 4 turns depending on the length of the shank.
10) Form a collar or red tying thread behind the bead and tie off behind the bead.
11) Using whatever method you like (I have a dubbing picker made from an ice cream stick with velcro glued onto it some people use old tooth brushes) tease out the SLF body to form a great hairy fly. Be careful not to break the tinsel.
12) You should b left with very little SLF on the hook shank with most of it teased out and you should be able to see the tinsel through the SLF.


This is the tying instructions for the freshwater BMS, you can now get BMS blend from Tiewell that is better than the SLF. Tiewell worked with the BMS inventor Muz Wilson to put the blend together.

I tie hammer head ones with small beadchain eyes instead of the glad bead. Try mixing up the colours, I like olive ones with a pink tail, or orange arsed olive.

Very nice fly, easy to tie and it catches fish.

Cheers,

Cole

[Stuie_02]

hi thurls

Do you tie your BMS on a lager hook as i have been playing around with #6 and #4's.

I have enjoyed success on blacks, olives and whites. the beadchain eye gives it a slight jig like motion. i am toying around with a jig like version just bend the head.

Cheers
Stuie

[Thurls]

Hi Stuie,

I have really only tied them on size 8's but my mate Duncan has been experimenting with bigger bulkier ones.

The pink arsed olive ones tend to work well in estuary situations for some reason. Accounting for plenty of Bream over east.

We have found that pink arsed black ones work well on yellowtail grunter over here.

We have had success on the all olive and all black for bream but I'm really just starting to experiment with them, I seem to tie a clouser on before a BMS at the moment.

For flats work though I think they are a great fly and with heavier eyes they work pylons and snags well.

I will be trying orange arsed olive ones soon and we have found orange to to be a good bream colour.

A very good fly, all white ones are a killer baitfish pattern for salmon and herring I'm told, I would think they would take Giant Herring too if they were feeding on whitebait.

Let me know how the jiggy BMS goes.

Cheers,

Cole