July Flies From the Vise

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WICKHAM’S FANCY

HOOK: #12 NYMPH 1XL 2XS

TAIL: BROWN HEN FIBERS

ABDOMEN/BODY: GOLD TINSEL – MEDIUM.  PALMER WITH BROWN ROOSTER HACKLE

RIB: SMALL GOLD WIRE

WING: HEN PHEASANT

HACKLE: HEN -BROWN

HEAD: SH HARD AS NAILS     

[niveker 0]

1 hour ago, DFoster said:

WICKHAM’S FANCY

👍👍

[chugbug27 0]

Nice! @DFoster

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Yellow Bellied Mattress Thrasher - Craig Perry, a river guide from Grayling, MI, designed this pattern in the early '80's.  It is a general stonefly imitation.

Hook - 2 XL dry fly, 8-10

Thread - black

Abdomen - black dubbing

Rib - dark dun dry hackle, palmered on abdomen

Wing - deer hair, tied down over back

Thorax - yellow dubbing

Hackle - dark dun, palmered on thorax

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The Tasty

Shad Fly

 

Hook - Gamakatsu T10-6H or equivalent

Thread - Orange

Tail - Polar bear hair or failing that, the tip of a white chicken feather

Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel

Body - Flat silver tinsel

 

Wing - Polar bear hair or failing that, the tip of a white chicken feather

[Sandan 0]

7 hours ago, DFoster said:

WICKHAM’S FANCY

Very fancy!

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The Mauritian

Salmon/Trout etc.

Bill Foran Creator

Hook - Mustad 3399, 3906 or equivalent, size 8 to 12

Thread - Black

Tail - Golden pheasant tippet

Butt - Black ostrich herl

Body - Green floss

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel

Wing - White polar bear hair under dyed red bucktail or substitute calf tail

Throat - Grizzly hen hackle fibers

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Yellow Stone - Designed by Bill Koernke from Grayling Michigan.  He was the owner of Bill's Fly Shop back in the 1980's and '90's.

Hook - Mustad 94840 or 94833,16

Thread - light olive

Body - 50/50 mix of yellow rabbit and olive rabbit dubbing

Rib - grizzly hackle, palmered

Wing - mottled turkey, single-tied flat and extended 1 gap width beyond the end of the hook

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Black Delta with Big Ass

Atlantic salmon, rainbow and brown trout, whitefish, bass and even pike

 

Pierre Tremblay Originator

 

Hook - Mustad 79580, 9672 or equivalent, size 10

Thread - Black

Body - Pre shaped black foam spider body

Wings - Gray squirrel tail hair

Head - Orange chenille

 

Pre shaped foam bodies

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On 7/7/2022 at 7:36 AM, niveker said:

👍👍

 

21 hours ago, Sandan said:

Very fancy!

 

On 7/7/2022 at 9:02 AM, chugbug27 said:

Nice! @DFoster

Thanks all- I found out the surgeon who took my appendix out is a fly fisherman.  He told me he ties mostly Atlantic Salmon flies and that he hasn't fished much with winged wets because he struggles tying them. In these parts you almost never see winged wets for sale in fly shops so unless you tie your own they can be tough to come by.  As a simple thank you I tied him a few classics while I recovered this week. Wickham's Fancy, March Brown, Silver Invicta and Royal Coachman, all size 10. I have caught trout on each of these patterns so hopefully they will bring him some luck too.  

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Fitting flies there @DFoster 

[Sandan 0]

2 hours ago, DFoster said:

 

 

Thanks all- I found out the surgeon who took my appendix out is a fly fisherman.  He told me he ties mostly Atlantic Salmon flies and that he hasn't fished much with winged wets because he struggles tying them. In these parts you almost never see winged wets for sale in fly shops so unless you tie your own they can be tough to come by.  As a simple thank you I tied him a few classics while I recovered this week. Wickham's Fancy, March Brown, Silver Invicta and Royal Coachman, all size 10. I have caught trout on each of these patterns so hopefully they will bring him some luck too.  

Very cool thing to do. 

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I can’t say my motives weren’t self serving.  I may need to see him again someday!  I hope he catches the trout of his life on them! Lol!

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La Moppe (The Mop)

René Parent Originator (2002)

Brook/Speckled Trout

Hook: Mustad 79580 or equivalent, size 8 or 10

Thread - Black

Tail - Red hackle fibers

Body - Rabbit fur dubbing of gray, beige, brown or black

Throat - Red hackle fibers

Collar - Guinea hen hackle

 

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La Saguay (The Saguay)

Philippe Desfossés Originator

Bass Fly

Hook - Gamakatsu T10-6H or equivalent

Thread - Black

Tag – Oval silver tinsel

Tip – Fluorescent green and burnt orange floss or uni stretch

Tail – Red floss

Butt – Black ostrich herl

Ribbing – Oval silver tinsel

Body – Fluorescent burnt orange and green floss or uni stretch

Wing - A few chartreuse green bucktail hairs, under a few orange-dyed bucktail hairs, under a few chartreuse green deer tail hairs, under some chartreuse-green Krystal Flash fibers.

Collar - Chartreuse green hen hackle

Head - Black with red ring in its center

It was in 1990 that Desfossés invented the "Saguay", a streamer for fishing bass. "I wanted to create a fly using a lot of fluorescent materials: I believe that bass are attracted to what is very visible. I named this streamer "Saguay" in honor of Saguay Lafond, the son of a cousin living in Shawinigan." "Saguay" is an Indian word meaning: "the beginning of a river". This streamer, Philippe Desfossés usually throws it into the rapids and lets it drift, before bringing it back by jerks when it passes near the rocks, where the bass are on the lookout for prey.