Firstly years ago some of you will probably remember a soft plastic called the eyeball tail. These 3” long wormy things were dynamite slowly rolled and paused down drop offs, pitched into structure and jiggled around and let waft in under logs with the current. Perth particularly produces a lot of bream on them. It disappeared and we haven’t really seen a substitute for it. But it taught me that bream obviously don’t mind worm patterns.
With the recent popularity spike of Dan Ivanoff’s worm fly for whiting, we saw a material called pearl core braid show itself. It’s a neat looking product with only one flaw. It doesn’t produce the whiting like the vernille chenille does! But I had a trip or two on the Blackwood fishing these pearl core worm flies and noticed some attention on them.
A trip into flyworld and talk with Dan about fly patterns really sparked up my interest about doing this. Luckily his wall had a slightly larger diameter pearl core braid. I grabbed a pack of he first colour I thought looked good for bream and tied one up.
It looked a little naked but I’m sure it would work. Then I was cleaning up an old flybox and came across a couple of bms flies. Penny dropped and here we are now. Looking forward to trying it out a bit over the summer.
Here is the BMW- bullen merri worm. Also has the initials of the great man who tied the BMS- Muz Wilson.
