Fulling Mill Hare's Ear Copper - Barbless

For fish that are grubbing about on the bottom

When trout are working the river bed rather than looking up, the fly needs to be down there with them and it needs to look like it belongs. The copper bead does both jobs: enough weight to hold the bottom, and a warm metallic tone that reads as a natural glint rather than a signal flare. It suits tannin and lightly stained water particularly well. Fish it on the point of a tight-line rig where you can feel it ticking along the gravel.