Pheasant Tail Crayfish

[Wellman 0]

Pheasant Tail Crayfish

 

 

Thread - 8/0 to 6/0 Brown

Hook - Mustad R74

Pheasant as Shellback and claws

Mono Eyes

Rib - Copper Wire

Body - A heavy brown dubbing mixed with ice dub.

 

A dumbell eye would help with get the fly down. I just use a sink tip.

 

 

This pattern was difficult to take pictures a certain steps.

 

 

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Do not tie down pheasant just the rib.

 

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[DevinKaradeema 0]

simple but still full bodied. i'm no good at making mono eyes so dumbells or even a bead chain would be for me. great pattern!

[Firetiger 0]

Wellman, that is a nice pattern and clear SBS, I like

 

DevinKaradeema, the mono eyes need not be difficult. Consider this approach: 1) light a small tea candle 2) cut a few pieces of heavy mono about 2 inches long 3) burn one end of the mono, so it makes a small black ball 4) dip the small black ball in epoxy, so you have big clear eyeball with a small black pupil inside 5) stick the mono by the other end in some foam or whatever to keep it stable while it dries. Repeat steps 3 to 5 as often as necessary

Dumbells or other heavy kinds of eyes tilt the fly the wrong way, tis better to omit eyes altogether.

[Robert M 0]

Nice fly straight forward and simple.

[Cheri 0]

Love this! Will give it a try. Thanks for the SBS.

[smallieFanatic 0]

Well done. Great SBS

[letumgo 0]

I missed this earlier. Beautifully done SBS buddy! Great photographs.

[mnorton 0]

nice SBS. thanks for sharing

[creekwalker 0]

Great photos and awesome pattern thanks

[ditz2 0]

I really like this dad. You can bet that I will be trying some next season for bass and rock bass. Carp might like them too.

[creekwalker 0]

This looks like a great pattern for bass, and use up all those tail clumps.

Mike

[Team Fnish 0]

This is a great pattern!I tie something very similar out of brighter materials for Greg DeLapp up in Washington. Your color and materials are much more natural and make for a great fly. I have had many trout take this pattern in late summer.

[JaxFlyTyer 0]

DevinKaradeema, the mono eyes need not be difficult. Consider this approach: 1) light a small tea candle 2) cut a few pieces of heavy mono about 2 inches long 3) burn one end of the mono, so it makes a small black ball 4) dip the small black ball in epoxy, so you have big clear eyeball with a small black pupil inside 5) stick the mono by the other end in some foam or whatever to keep it stable while it dries. Repeat steps 3 to 5 as often as necessary <img src="http://www.flytyingforum.com/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

Dumbells or other heavy kinds of eyes tilt the fly the wrong way, tis better to omit eyes altogether.

I do something very similar though I've changed my methods a little bit. This might help someone though.

 

Nice shrimp pattern.

[WNYoutdoorsnut 0]

love it just tied a few up going to try it on some Niagara River smallies tomarow!

[bluegill576 0]

Nice. what type of pheasant do you use? thanks