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MADAAM X

Hook - Mustad C53S STD/3X size 14

Thread - UTC 70, burnt orange

Tail/body - Natural elk hair

Head/wing - Natural elk hair

Legs - Hareline Chicones regular crusher clear barred white

 

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Bass Bugs, tied in various shape and sizes

Hand held one is:

Hook: 4/0 Predator 

Tail: Buck tail, EP fiber, some flash, followed by dyed Guinea 

Skirt: Deer hair (4) colors

Body: Stacked spinning hair ( Nature Spirit)

Eyes: Plastic

Legs: Rubber IMG_1052.thumb.jpeg.de110b7be5b3612d3da40964b9685c22.jpeg

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Quebec

Hook - Mustad R74, sizes 2-4-6-8
Thread - Black
Tail - Golden pheasant crest feather tied short
Butt - Yellow floss
Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel
Body - Dubbed with claret lamb's wool
Throat - Claret hackle tied on as a collar and tied back and down
Wing - Purple bucktail tied over the body and extending to end of tail
Cheeks - Black-and-white barred lemon wood duck section tied in at each side

Alexander Learmonth of Montreal, Canada, originated this pattern in 1931

Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson

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Rapid Stream

Hook - Mustad R74, sizes 4-6-8
Thread - Black
Tip - Flat silver tinsel
Tail - Narrow section of yellow goose quill
Ribbing - Flat silver tinsel
Body - Black floss
Wing - Dyed black squirrel tail tied over the body

Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson

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MADAAM X
Hook - Mustad C53S STD/3X size 14
Thread - UTC 70, yellow
Tail/body - Natural elk hair
Head/wing - Natural elk hair
Legs - Medium round rubber, yellow

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Plymouth Streamer

Hook - Mustad R74, size 2-4-6
Thread - Black
Tail - Long narrow section of red goose quill
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Body - Flat silver tinsel
Throat - Grizzly hackle tied on as a collar and tied back and down
Wing - Four grizzly saddle hackles

Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson

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Trout Fin Bucktail

Hook - Mustad R74, sizes 6-8
Thread - Black
Tail - Narrow section of red goose quill curved upward
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Body - Flat silver tinsel
Wing - Sparse white bucktail tied over the body with an overwing of sparse black bucktail, then a larger bunch of dark orange bucktail

This is one of the many variations of the pattern. It is dressed to simulate the fin of an Eastern Brook Trout.

Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson

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Van DeCar

Hook - Mustad R74, sizes 6-8
Thread - Black
Tail - Red hackle barbs
Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel
Body - Flat gold tinsel
Throat - Red hackle barbs
Wing - Fox squirrel tail tied over the body
Cheeks - Jungle cock eyes or substitute

Tom Van DeCar of Hutchinson, Kansas, originated this pattern.

Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson

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Gasperaux

Hook - Mustad R74, sizes 4-6-8
Thread - Black
Body - Embossed silver tinsel
Wing - Yellow bucktail tied over the body with an overwing of red bucktail
Cheeks - Jungle cock eyes or substitute

George Richards and Charles Wetzel originated this pattern.

Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson

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MADAAM X

Hook - Mustad C53S STD/3X size 14

Thread - UTC 70, burnt orange

Tail/body - Olive dyed deer hair

Head/wing - olive dyed deer hair

Legs - opal crystal flash/fire Orange crystal flash

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MADAAM X

Hook - Mustad C53S STD/3X size 14

Thread - UTC 70, watery olive

Tail/body - Olive dyed deer hair

Rib - UTC 210 flo green

Head/wing - Bleached elk hair

Legs - Round white rubber

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Trout Fin

Robert Cavanagh

Hook - 3xl nymph
Thread - Black
Tag - Yellow floss
Tail - Golden pheasant crest
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Body - Flat silver tinsel
Hackle - Guinea fiber beard
Wing - White over black (equal parts) over red larger section duck or goose quill sections

Perrault's Standard Dictionary of Fishing Flies - Keith Perrault

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Trout Fin Streamer

Attributed to Keith Fulsher

Hook - 3xl nymph
Thread - Black
Tail - Red goose or swan
Ribbing - Fine silver wire or oval silver (Optional)
Body - Flat silver tinsel
Hackle - Cream badger hackle
Wing - Married goose or swan (from the bottom) red, black and white
Cheek - Jungle cock (Optional)

Tied per the photo in the following book

Forgotten Flies - Schmookler and Sils

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