The challenge thread!

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No feedback from CP, so I'm just gonna post this up to try and keep this thread going.  

Fall Favorite Variant

Hook - Salmon, #6
Thread - Red, 8/0
Rib - 2 strands silver metallic thread, twisted
Body - Silver tinsel
Collar - Red saddle hackle, tied down
Wing - Fox squirrel tail*, 2 strands FTD Mini-Twist, yellow gold

*The little bit of orange bucktail I had was crap.  
 

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Next up: 

Doc Spratley - streamer or nymph, your choice of body colors.  

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23 hours ago, niveker said:

Fall Favorite Variant

Of course I approve, nice tie, I've been busy feeding foam hoppers to fish for a few days

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On 9/15/2024 at 5:34 AM, niveker said:

No feedback from CP, so I'm just gonna post this up to try and keep this thread going.  

Fall Favorite Variant


 

Nice Fall Favorite!

I'll take the Doc Spratley

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1 hour ago, cphubert said:

Of course I approve, nice tie

Thanks CP, I didn't think you'd mind.  I would have tried your original challenge, but have no decent substitutes for some of those materials. 

Glad to hear you're getting out.  

 

33 minutes ago, cencalfly said:

Nice Fall Favorite!

Thanks  CCF

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Doc Spratley (black)

Doc Spratley (black)

Hook: #8 Tiemco 5263

Thread: Black 3/0

Tail: Grizzly hackle fibers

Body: Thin, black yarn

Rib: Fine oval silver tinsel

Hackle: Soft grizzly hackle, full collar

Wing: Pheasant Tail Fibers (brownish red)

Head: Peacock Herl

 

Next Fly: Dark Spruce Matuka

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i'll take the dark spruce matuka

Dark Spruce Matuka

Hook - Nymph/Streamer

Thread - Black

Ribbing - Silver wire

Body - Red uni stretch

Thorax - Peacock herl

Wing - Furnace hackle or equivalent

Hackle - Furnace hackle or equivalent

 

next challenge fly is an.....Lew Oatman "Brook Trout"

Reference

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12 hours ago, flytire said:

.Lew Oatman "Brook Trout"

I'm going to give this one a try may take a day or two to prepare the wings

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Not as bad as planned the painting of the dots is the most time-consuming should make a nice fishable pattern. referenced -Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing, Bates

Original pattern- head; olive green painted white underneath, tail; orange over black over white to imitate a brook trout fin, body; 3/4 white floss 1/4 salmon pink floss tied quite full with gold tinsel rib, throat; same as tail to imitate brook trout fin, wing; two grizzly saddles with two olive green hackles covering and painted with three alternating scarlet and yellow dots along the quill, cheeks; jungle cock eyes

my light pink floss deteriorated in my hand coming off the spool and was unusable, so I substituted hot pink giving the fly a uv pink hotspot, hope Mr. Oatman approves of the 2024 variant had a few issues with the dots bleeding (Sally Hanson used for dots and underside of head)

Next pattern keeping with streamer theme Oatman's Battenkill Shinner 

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Nice tie cphubert.  I’ll take the Battenkill Shiner.

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Very nice CP

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Battenkill Shiner

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Next challenge fly:  Grizzly Wulff 

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I’ll take the Grizzly Wulff 

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9 hours ago, gadabout said:

Battenkill Shiner

nice tie I need a few for my box I've always used Floyd Frankie's shiner, but I have a soft spot for feather-wings