Gold Head Lures
Goldhead lures are weighted fishing flies that feature a gold-colored bead head (usually brass or tungsten) combined with various body materials and tails. The gold bead serves multiple purposes - it adds weight for sinking, creates flash to attract fish, and gives the fly a realistic head profile.
Construction:
- Gold bead head - typically brass or tungsten for weight and flash
- Weighted design - sinks quickly to fishing depth
- Various body materials - Fritz, chenille, marabou, or other attractant materials
- Tail options - marabou, fox fur, or synthetic fibers
Fly Category:
- Classified as streamers/lures
- Work as attractors rather than specific insect imitations
- Designed to trigger aggressive strikes from predatory fish
Why Goldhead Lures Are So Effective:
- Flash Factor - The gold bead creates irresistible flash underwater that mimics small fish scales
- Proper Presentation - Weight gets the fly down to where fish are feeding
- Versatile Depth - Can fish various water columns depending on retrieve speed
- Year-Round Success - Particularly deadly in cooler months when fish are less active
- Trigger Response - The combination of flash, movement, and profile triggers predatory instincts
Best Fishing Techniques:
Retrieve Methods:
- Slow figure-of-eight - steady, enticing movement
- Strip and pause - erratic action mimics injured baitfish
Model: 7/38
The gold head Fritz trout Flies are one of the most basic yet effective lures, used constantly in the cooler months yet will get results all year round on still water lakes and reservoirs. The sparkle in the fritz and pearl flash in the tails work as an attractant to the trout. This simple lure is a..
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Model: 1/37
Another variation on the popular flash damsels, orange is a popular colour for an attractant fly, and these have proved to be another successful version, tied on a size 10 hook..
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Model: 5/43
The traditional Dawsons Olive fly tied on a goldhead with Orange instead of Yellow in the tail, fish these by stripping and retrieving quite quickly. Used on still water for trout all year round, one of the most popular selling flies...
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Model: 7/28
These fritz trout flies have had the extra sparkle added to the fly with the use of the tinsel wings, great little trout catchers.A must for any still water or stocked trout water. The goldhead fritz trout flies are probably our best selling across the whole of our trout fly collection, used constan..
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Model: 1/36
Another variation on the popular flash damsels, orange is a popular colour for an attractant fly, and these have proved to be another successful version, tied on a size 10 hook..
£0.70
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Model: 4/31
Gold bead orange tadpole flies, also known as woolly buggers, a super fly when your using lures, large still waters and trout fisheries, rainbow trout love these !..
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Model: 4/21
The Woolly Bugger has to be one of the most versatile and productive trout flies around. Our woolly bugger flies are tied with a marabou tail and a flash for added sparkle. The marabou tail and in most cases a palmered body suggest succulent lava, tadpoles or leeches. Drag the w..
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Model: 7/36
The simple sparkle flies are made from tinsel and started life as a tube fly which would be tied behind boats on large still waters to imitate fry. Today it is used for catching rainbow trout and brown trout on still waters, a good choice in late summer or early Autumn. Available in three ..
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Model: 4/28
Gold bead pink tadpole flies, also known as woolly buggers, a super fly when your using lures, large still waters and trout fisheries, rainbow trout love these !..
£0.70
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Model: 4/22
The Woolly Bugger has to be one of the most versatile and productive trout flies around. Our woolly bugger flies are tied with a marabou tail and a flash for added sparkle. The marabou tail and in most cases a palmered body suggest succulent lava, tadpoles or leeches. Drag the w..
£0.70
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Model: 7/29
These fritz trout flies have had the extra sparkle added to the fly with the use of the tinsel wings, great little trout catchers.A must for any still water or stocked trout water, resembling a small bait fish the sparklers are really just very good attractants. Trout just go for the annoyance and s..
£0.70
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Model: 4/24
The Woolly Bugger has to be one of the most versatile and productive trout flies around. Our woolly bugger flies are tied with a marabou tail and a flash for added sparkle. The marabou tail and in most cases a palmered body suggest succulent lava, tadpoles or leeches. Drag the w..
£0.70
Ex Tax:£0.58