SHIPMAN BUZZER

Tying Materials required:

• Fine wire round bend Sizes 12 -18
• Seals Fur
• Fly Tying thread – fine black or colour to match body
• Rib – fine pearl lurex
• Breathers – white multiyarn

Tying:

1. Tie in the thread behind the hook eye and using close touching turns take the thread down the shank to level with the point.

2. Lay a piece of white multiyarn on top of the hook shank and tie in at the point leaving a small amount over hanging.  Then take the tying thread towards the eye binding down the multiyarn on top of the hook.  Continue to the eye and leave a small amount sticking forward past the eye.  Take the thread down to the bend.

3. Catch in a piece of pearl lurex and then dub the seals fur onto the thread and dub up the hook to behind the eye.

4. Take the lurex in open turns up the hook to behind the eye and tie off.

5.  Whip finish the fly behind the eye.

This buzzer is a killer in flat calm or slight ripple conditions when there is a hatch of buzzers coming off and the fish want the buzzer fished slightly higher than you get with a suspender buzzer.  Only gink the breathers and the fly will sit in the surface film. Generally fish the fly static and if a fish is moving near the fly a slight twitch of the fly will often convert slight interest to a solid take.