How To Create Sooty Olive For Fly Tying
George Barron uses materials coloured Sooty Olive in his excellent book " At The End Of The Line ". I had never heard of this colour before and it aroused my curiosity. I quickly found that it's not a colour you can buy a pre-mixed dye for and there is not much information on how to create it. I did find some a few references on old forum posts ( here , here and here ) that suggest a few recipes and some different approaches you can try and I though it would be helpful to pull everything I found into a single post. So what is Sooty Olive and how do you create this colour? What Is Sooty Olive? Sooty Olive is a colour used in some Irish Lough patterns. There is also a fly pattern called The Sooty Olive that uses it to replicate a hatch of olives or olive sedges. Sooty Olive Lough Fly You can buy Sooty Olive materials from a few suppliers. This hen cape from Irish Fly Supplies, for example Sooty Olive Hen Cape Or this dubbing...