Hook: #4 Gaelic Supreme 8xl
Thread: white 70 denier under body, black 70 denier for head
Tag: flat silver tinsel
Body: blue floss
Rib: flat silver tinsel
Underwing: blue bucktail then white bucktail
Throat: white saddle hackle
Wing: paired black saddle hackles between paired blue dun saddle hackles (slightly shorter)
Cheeks: Guinea Fowl
Eye (optional): jungle cock
Head: black thread with blue floss accent
McElligot's Pool
If you're patient and cool, who knows what you'll find here (though you can be fairly certain it will relate to fly fishing, far-fetched fish tales, and/or fly tying patterns all for my own personal amusement and future reflection).
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Kind of Blue - Rangely Style Streamer
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Soft-hackle Dry Flies
John Shaner, of Hardy fame, gave me a solid dose of the soft hackle kool-aid and since I've been thoroughly enjoying tying up traditional spiders and north-country wet flies with soft hackles, I decided to see what those materials could add to some traditional dry fly techniques.
Above, is a fan-wing style Adams which grizzly soft-hackles instead of the standard dry hackles. The middle photo is a traditional red-quill but with two turns of Hungarian partridge in front of the traditional dun dry hackles.
The bottom photo is an attempt at a March Brown which a hackle fiber tail and a gold ribbed hare's ear body. I wrapped a few turns of CDC as a thorax hackle and then a few turns of dun hen hackle in front of that.
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Rusty Spinner
Hook: Dry Fly 12-16
Thread: Rusty Brown 70 Denier
Tail: Wood duck fibers
Body: Superfine Waterproof Dubbing - Rusty Brown
Wings: Kiptail
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Snow-shoe Hare Comparadun
Hook: #14 Dry Fly Hook (TMC 100)
Thread: black 70 denier
Tail: show-shoe hare's foot
Body: Hare's Ear dubbin
Wing: show-shoe hare's foot
Jiggy Buggers
This is just your basic wooly bugger tied on a jig hook with a slotted tungsten bead head. I decided to try these out on jig hooks to see if they snagged less while bouncing on the bottom. They might also be fun for ice fishing.
Hook: C400BL Barbless Jig Hook #10 or 12
Bead: 1/8" or 7/64" Slotted Tungsten Bead (3.3mm or 2.8mm)
Tail: Black Marabou
Body: Black Chenille
Hackle: Gray hackle
Harry Darbee's Two-Feather Fly
Harry Darbee's Two-Feather Fly
Hook: #14 Emerger
Thread: Blue Dun 70 Denier
Body/Tail: Suitable Feather (eg. short and fat hackle feather, wood duck or mallard flank, grouse for smaller sizes)
Hackle: cock hackle to match
For some detailed tying instructions, check out Davie McPhail. He calls it a "Hatchmaster" but from what I know, Harry Darbee invented it in the 50s and called it the Two-Feather. It also was simply called the "Darbee."
Monday, December 29, 2014
Showshoe & UV Finish Emergers
The flies above are the result of some experimentation I've done with #16 Klinkhamer hooks and snowshoe hare's feet wings. Both bodies were finished using Loon's Clear UV Finish - Thin. On the left, I spiral-wrapped dun WonderWrap with UV Pearl Flashabou wrapped between the WonderWrap spirals. On the right, I used a grizzly hackle quill. The idea is that the bodies will easily sink below the surface, with the super-boyant showshoe hare keeping them afloat in the surface film.
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