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Grunter (synth wing)

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A neat Jingler emerger; swapped out the CDC wing for poly yarn since I have lots of the latter and less of the former.  Found it on the Blue Ribbon site; Davie McPhail has a nice video.

hook - WFC Model 3 #12
thread - Danville 6/0 black
tag - holo tinsel red
body - dubbin g hare’s ear
hackle - brown
collar - partridge
wing - Congo Hair grey


Regards,
Scott

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As a fly tyer who is very new to this sport, I quite enjoy finding older patterns that are sadly being forgotten as time goes by or to more tyers, are simply undiscovered yet. This is a pattern designed by Scott Sanchez called the Glasshouse Caddis and is a pretty interesting cased caddis imitation. The case is made using peacock black ice dub ribbed with copper wire, a glass bead, and hen soft hackle. I used black partridge as it was on hand.


A pretty simple tie, just use a 1x long hook to better accomodate the two beads. You can watch a tutorial on @jackflyfish Youtube page.

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Heckham Green

Hook - Nymph/wet fly style
Thread - Black
Tag - Flat gold tinsel
Tail - Golden pheasant tippets
Ribbing - Flat gold tinsel
Body - Olive uni stretch
Wing - Barred teal
Hackle - Brown hen

Reference - Forgotten Flies - Schmookler & Sils

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Blue Sky variant

My version of Stan Young's creation from the 80's for the steelhead fly swap.

Mustad 36890, silver tag, blue hackle tail, blue floss w/silver rib body, white hair underwing (polar bear, yak, goat or calf tail), blue hackle tip wings(not reversed),blue collar hackle.

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8 minutes ago, cphubert said:

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My version of Stan Young's creation from the 80's for the steelhead fly swap.

Mustad 36890, silver tag, blue hackle tail, blue floss w/silver rib body, white hair underwing (polar bear, yak, goat or calf tail), blue hackle tip wings(not reversed),blue collar hackle.spacer.pngspacer.png

OH Boy, those are pretty.

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Golden Girl variant

Robert Haig-Brown's pattern, no orange polar bear left in my closet so I used white for the underwing.

 low water salmon hook, orange hackle tail, gold tinsel body (holographic), orange collar hackle, white polar bear underwing flanked by golden pheasant tippets wings.

Don't know if I'm going north this year but filling the box in case.....

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Blue Finn variant

A Robert Chaisson pattern, Robert is a Nova Scotia Guide in Cape Breton I always carry a few of his patterns on the Margaree or Cheticamp this is a Mickey Finn variant.

low water salmon hook, red uni tag, silver tinsel body with oval silver rib, yellow-red-yellow hair tied sparse (polar bear or goat) a blue hackle collar.

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New and improved Uncle Milty- dubbing loop version.

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Using a dubbing loop for the wormies and the marabou, I tied this fly in about four minutes. Look for the pictorial SBS in the SBS section.

 

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Mark have you fished those yet? I'm thinking they look like a egg cluster with a nice soft chewy texture.

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36 minutes ago, cphubert said:

Mark have you fished those yet? I'm thinking they look like a egg cluster with a nice soft chewy texture.

No I haven't yet, and I have two more months before ice-out. I could fish them through the ice but then it would just be an attractor pattern, not really a test for it as an egg pattern.

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