SBPatt 0 Report post Posted July 20, 2016 Found this on Tom Sutcliffe's site. A neat, simple, old school fly; made a few substitutions to the original materials but nothing major. Not sure if he just uses plain raffia for the wing; I backed the Swiss Straw I used with Scotch tape - made it easy to fold/crease it. hook -Dai Riki 300 #10 thread - UTC 140. Tan abdomen/head - Zelon dubbing hydropsyche under underwing - Krystal Flash root beer underwing - Swiss Straw rust semi-bullethead/wing - deer hair legs - medium rubber corn snake indicator - 1mm foam orange mash barb, start thread, tie in at 2/3 mark and wrap to the eye clean, stack, measure (2x shank) a clump of deer hair trim to length, align butts with 2/3 mark switch hands, tie in with 2 soft loops, pull thread tight but don't allow it to spin; trim buts dub thread/dub abdomen tie in KF; fold back, tie down, trim ( gap width past bend) back Swiss Straw with tape, fold and cut to shape tie in, cover wing butts with dubbing pull deer hair up and back; tie down at 2/3 mark, covering top half of the head tie in legs tie in indicator half hitch x 2, SHHAN, trim legs Regards, Scott Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikechell 0 Report post Posted July 21, 2016 Well done SBS, as always. Does the Scotch tape hold onto the raffia after it gets wet? I didn't think it was water proof in that way. Anyway, great looking pattern. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SBPatt 0 Report post Posted July 21, 2016 Well done SBS, as always. Does the Scotch tape hold onto the raffia after it gets wet? I didn't think it was water proof in that way. Mike, Unknown; I'll try it out in a couple days and let you know. Regards, Scott Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
