Snipe Bloa v Waterhen Bloa

[jjr]

Morning all


1. Can anyone clarify the materials needed for the Snipe Bloa ?

2. Secondly, I have the materials ( bar the waterhen!) to tie a Waterhen bloa. Which of these would people think is the better fly - for stillwater use.............

Advise gratefully received. I'm swaying towards the Waterhen bloa as I have a few of the very deadly Snipe and Yellow already tied up and I have a feeling that the Snipe Bloa is much the same .......

[highlander]

Dressing
Hook:14-12
Silk: straw coloured
Hackle: pale feather from the undercoverts
of a Snipe wing.
These feathers can be heavily barred with white.
The feather you are looking for does not have heavy
white barring
Generally a pale bluey grey.

A similar fly is the Light Watchet which has the same body
but the hackle is a pale Starling feather.
Tight Lines

[killipso]

If using the pattern in a sedge hatch I'd probably go with the Snipe Bloa - just for the colour accent on the 'legs.' That means on a stillwater I'd mostly go for the Snipe. It depends on what insects you get in your part of the world I suppose?