Black Pennell

Want to make your own? You will need the following.

Hook - Size 14 b175
Thread - Uni-8/0 Black
Tail - 6 to 8 Golden Pheasant Tippet Fibres
Rib - Oval Silver Tinsel
Body - Black Floss
Hackle - Dyed Black Hen

Popular from March to September. A great all round fly. This is a slimline floss bodied Pennell, fished in river and lake with equal success. A popular fly early on in sizes 12 and 14 when duck fly are hatching. One of the best trout fly fishing river wet patterns around. A great fly for the hill loughs of Donegal and Connemara and has been noted by Angling Ireland to do well on Lough Owel.

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