Snaelda Willie Gunn Conehead Copper Tube 1/3

Snaelda Willie Gunn Conehead Copper Tube 1/3

 

The most petite Willie Gunn Conehead Copper Tube we make. A Metal tube of about 8 – 10 mm. with a conehead. The total length of the fly is 60 mm.

A perfect fly for autumn salmon fishing and peaty rivers in Scotland.

We made a small selection of this excellent fly pattern (a version of the Willie Gunn Snaelda). The Willie Gunn pattern is a hair wing pattern after the head keeper on the Sutherland Estates (river Brora) in Scotland

The Snaelda or Snælda, called in Old Norse, is also the name of a hand spindle made from wood used for spinning and twisting fibres, such as wool, into yarn. The Snaelda fly is Made in so many versions in various colours – you usually find the Snaelda flies with a black wool body made to be fished deep.

This version is tied on a copper tube.

If you are pursuing salmon in Norway, Scotland or Russia …this is one of the flies to bring

Also, see the 2 other sizes we do a version of this fly pattern

SEE THE OTHER SNAELDA`s

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