Hellgrammite 0 Report post Posted June 4, 2013 Pheasant tail BWO hare's ear dubbing Poly yarn, white Copper wire, fine Grizzly or dun hackle 8/0 or 70 d UTC in brown Std wire, 1x length hook, size 14 or 16 Huh. Made me think, "what can I do with just 5 materials" Amanda I like stuff like this. Fun mental exercises. So, with the above mats, what can I do? Well, BWO dries in standard (Thanks Crackaig!) and parachute, RS2 nymph/emerger, PT nymph with copper thorax, and thread-bodied spinner. Well, all life cycles of BWOs. Or, I can use thread for the body, and match brown ones. Or, even strip a hackle stem and have a third color that way. So hey, 3 colors (4 if I count a PT fiber for a body!) and can rib or not. Tip of the iceberg. I could tie 1/2 pheasant tail emergers, in the aforementioned colors, or maybe parachute emergers. How about some caddis larva, cased and free living, or a poly wing caddis in a few colors? Midge pupa, midge adults, in a few colors? Diving caddis, with the webby part of a hackle feather, ribbed with the wire for some flash to look like bubbles? Caddis emergers with a trailing shuck of poly? Copper johns? Small olive nymphs? Shellbacked nymphs? SCUDS? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm pretty sure I'd want more than one size hook, but this would definitely be easily workable. Interesting, too, how close everyone's lists are. The stuff that works just works, I guess. If I could add ONE more mat, it would be partridge hackle. And yeah, my parachute is darker green... I have one of those "assortments" of dubbing and dubbed on the wrong color body. Whoops. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
planettrout 0 Report post Posted June 4, 2013 Peacock Herl Pheasant Tail SM Gold Wire Lead or Lead Sub. .015 Partridge Skin Veevus 16/0, Black TMC 5262, #16 PT/TB Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
djmyers 0 Report post Posted June 4, 2013 Dun hackle Coastal Deer Hair Hares Mask Peacock Herl Partridge #14 dry fly hook Brown thread Grizzly hackle would provide for dry flies for parachutes, catskill, griffith gnats and other midges, and caddis flies. The deer hair could be used for caddis, posts for parachutes, comparaduns, beetles, and more. Hares mask would give you dubbing and tailing material. Peacock would give you darker body or stripped for a different look. Partridge would provide for wet flies or some small makeshift wooly buggers. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riffleriversteelheadslayer 0 Report post Posted June 4, 2013 #12 dry fly hook mustad ring neck pheasant skin complete hackle cree peacock herl gold beads deer hair thread 6/0 white Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Piker20 0 Report post Posted June 4, 2013 All these folk and their whole skins. I'll revise my list then please and have a Whole pheasant, whole peacock and a whole partridge and you can keep the saddle hackles. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mridenour 0 Report post Posted June 4, 2013 I refuse to choose between streamers and nymphs so I won't make a list but I am intrigued by the variety in everyone else's list. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riffleriversteelheadslayer 0 Report post Posted June 4, 2013 I only have whole ring neck skins as I hunt and clean my own pheasant I havent bought a ringneck feather in 20 years so I listed it as if I was taking the stuff from my own material box Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Piker20 0 Report post Posted June 4, 2013 Yeah I stick with my revised list. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wavey1988 0 Report post Posted June 4, 2013 All these folk and their whole skins. I'll revise my list then please and have a Whole pheasant, whole peacock and a whole partridge and you can keep the saddle hackles. I only picked hackles. Didn't know we were allowed whole skins. I'll revise my list the same as pikers Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Christopher K 0 Report post Posted June 4, 2013 thread: 8/0 uni white hook: mustad dry #14 Materials: -brown dry hackle in size 12-14 -peacock herl -calf tail -rabbit skin -poly yarn Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikechell 0 Report post Posted June 4, 2013 Flip flop foam silver tinsel synthetic hair rubber leg material superglue Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
djonesii 0 Report post Posted June 5, 2013 I've been pretty impressed with FlyTyersDungeon stuff ..... some of their legs .... chartreuse and black 2 bags of the Dragon Dubbing one olive, the other orange 2 bunches of congo hair one variety of white/silver, the other bait fish green.... 1 h20 flash in pearl ( I know it's 7 things ... , but this is a desert island kit after all, still only 4 "items") Bet that comes in at under 10 bucks, and there are at least 50 flies in there if not 75. 3/0 black thread #2 streamer hooks. ..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
utyer 0 Report post Posted June 5, 2013 Since others have stretched these lists a little bit with whole skins, I will do something similar: Hook 14 1xl nymph. Thread Veevus 10/0 white. Yarn, synthetic soft acrylic in a blended set of colors (multiple colors in one skein.) Yarn, baby yarn again in a blended skein of multiple colors Fine deer hair Copper wire Opal tinsel: By shredding and blending the yarns, I can create dubbing in many many colors. I can make tails and legs from combed out yarn fibers. Copper wire for ribs, on nymphs. I can *and do) make lots of different color nymphs and drys by blending my own dubbing from just these two types of yarn. For dry mayfly patterns, I can make duns, emergers and cripples with just the yarn dubbing, and deer hair. I usually use Pheasant tail for the abdomens on emergers and cripples, but I can live with yarn dubbing. For caddis patterns, I can make an X Caddis with a yarn shuck, opal tinsel, and deer hair. Its my go to Caddis pattern. Dubbed body Deer hair caddis can also be made from just the blended yarns and deer hair, no hackle required. I rarely use hackle on dry flies, I much prefer to use Compara-duns and my own compara-emerger and compara-cripple patterns, all tied without hackle. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
McRad 0 Report post Posted June 6, 2013 Would want to be able to do some dries and nymphs so i would go with the following, had to sacrifice beads. Hook: Dai-Riki #135 Size 14 scud/pupa, 1x short/strong. Good all around hook, nymphs, dries. Thread: 8/0 Tan Waxed Uni-Thread. I find you can tie anything with this thread. Materials: Pheasant tail, Small gold wire, hare/squirrel dubbing mix, red medium holo tinsel, tan sheet foam 2mm. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites