Cormorant (Competition Variation)

The basic Cormorant has been played about with for years. This is a little variation inspired by a pattern that I picked up from Hugh Frew at Bewl Bridge. He had used coloured thread to add a thorax to the fly. You can chop and change the colour as you see fit, black and green is always a good fish catcher. With modern coloured resins its easy to tie this type of pattern.

[@mikekuczynski1552]

Nice and easy tie

[@lindsayiflyfish]

Yes, thanks

[@bbrown8319]

Nice work mr Simpson 👍these will definitely be going in the box
Thanks for sharing 👍

[@lindsayiflyfish]

Your very welcome Mr Brown ;-)

[@simonlakin5067]

Thanks Lindsay for tying this pattern. I’ll have a go at tying it and fishing it at Loch Insch. 👍

[@lindsayiflyfish]

You are welcome Simon, Loch Insch was a great venue, tight lines buddy.

[@zenbooter]

Very keen fly hook and all. The vise clamp is intriguing to the denial of a complete picture. What I cannot see I’m designing.

[@lindsayiflyfish]

I will stick a photo of the vice up in the Community tab on the channel page for you.

[@zenbooter]

Lindsay Simpson Thank you sir, my apology for being a pain. I keep forgetting the search technology available.

[@kerrypitt9789]

Is the competition spec more to do with the hook configuration? I see you can by a gauge for hooks, for competitions. I'm not sure I will ever be able to get into a competition, but if I do I would like to understand the requirements. I would tie a number of different body colours, blue would be a good colour here. Great stuff Lindsay, you know how much I appreciate your time and effort to help us all out.

[@lindsayiflyfish]

Its hook size and overall fly length. All depends on what rules you are fishing to though as we fish to IFFA and FIPPS so two different sets of rules.

[@MrJimmuck]

Hello Lindsay, I hope you are well. I too used different colour threads for the hotspot .. fire orange being most effective … but I will give the colour spot resins a go …. happy days … atb Jim

[@lindsayiflyfish]

The resins seem really good pal, let me know how you get on.

[@anthonycaton850]

Lindsay where did you purchase your lasar resin from

[@lindsayiflyfish]

I got it from Funky Fly Tying, I think their shop is down at the minute though. Troutline.ro do coloured resins they are excellent.