*Type of Fly

Dry

*Name of Fly:

DSS

*Etymology:
(Why you named the fly with its name)

Name is abbreviation of Davis’ Squirrel Sedge but also a (bad) pun on Department of Social Security (and Alf Garnet once said, ‘we all know what the SS stands for in DSS, don’t we my little Führer’).

*Date Invented

March 2009

Hook:

Size 12 Down-eyed Dry Fly hook

Thread:

Purple (e.g. Uni-Thread 8/0 Purple)

Weighting:

None

Tail:

None

Body:

4 or 5 strands of Heron herl.

Rib:

None

Thorax:

N/A

Legs:

N/A

Wings:

Underwing of blue/grey CdC (e.g. Marc Petitjean shade 1)
Overwing of Grey Squirrel tail fibres (stacked level and tied in as a hair wing)

Hackle:

N/A

Special Tying Instructions:

Make sure you treat the squirrel hair (but not the body) very well with floatant e.g. Watershed before tying it in.  Also tie the tips of the grey squirrel tail fibres level with the bend of the hook.

Fishing Instructions:

Fish as a general sedge pattern – also does well when Pond Olives (Cleon dipterum) are hatching.

Interesting Facts:

Based on a un-named pattern by D.W. Roxborough described in his undated pamphlet ‘A Brief Guide To The Hill Loch Fishing Of Gairloch and District