Flexible Fiend

Faster-water attractor

MulletSubsurface

Long, thin flexible red rubber legs radiating from a small dark dubbed body with a gold bead head — designed by Colin Macleod specifically for mullet in faster-flowing water; named by Mark Bowler, editor of Fly Fishing & Fly Tying magazine.

Fish this when

Faster-flowing water where a static profile would wash past unnoticed — the legs give movement even in strong current.

Why it works

Has "rapidly taken its place as an essential fly for mullet fishermen throughout the UK" — the flexible legs keep working when a rigid pattern would sit dead.

Naturals it imitates