Fulling Mill Hot Head Straggle Damsel - Barbless

The bright head is doing more than helping you see it

A hot head puts a single point of colour right where a fish focuses as the fly comes past, which is why hot-head patterns pull takes from fish that have ignored plain flies all morning. This one is barbless, so it comes out cleanly, and it works beyond its stillwater home: fished on the point of a team or swung as a searching fly, it is as at home in a river as it is on a lake margin.