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Black and Silver Soft Hackle

Hook - Standard wet fly style

Thread - Black

Ribbing - Silver wire

Body - Black wire

Hackle - Hungarian Partridge

 

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Gold Wire Soft Hackle

Hook - Standard wet fly style

Thread - Black

Ribbing - Gold wire

Body - Gold wire

Hackle - Hungarian Partridge

 

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Moose & Grizzly
 
Hook - Standard wet fly style
Thread - Black
Body - Moose mane
Thorax - Black beaver dubbing
Hackle - Grizzly hen
 
Apply a swipe of crazy glue to the thread wraps before wrapping the moose mane or overcoat the body with uv resin
 
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White Hackle
 
Hook - Standard wet fly style
Thread - Black
Ribbing - Black floss, thread, uni stretch etc
Body - White floss
Hackle - White hen

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Genesee Jewel - 1st attempt

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Hook: 10-14 (12)

Thread:Cream (Tan)

Tail:Cream hackle fibers (Cream hackle & lemon wood fibers)

Rib: Pearl tinsel

Body: Cream rabbit dubbing (Pale yellow rabbit dubbing)

Wing:Lemon Wood Duck

Hackle:Cream or pale Ginger (Cream)

Criticism welcomed

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Jezebel

Hook - Mustad R73-9671, size 4

Thread - Black

Tail - Barred wood duck flank

Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel

Body - White yarn, uni yarn etc

Hackle - Light brown, long and soft, sparse, beard

Wing - Gray squirrel tail*

Cheeks - Jungle cock

*Book recipe calls for the wing to be "small bunch of shorter gray squirrel tail over longer, larger bunch of same"

I simplified the wing with one bunch of squirrel tail

Reference - Perrault's Standard Dictionary of Fishing Flies and Forgotten Flies

 

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Montana Nymph
 
Hook - Mustad R73-9672/R74-9672, size 2-14
Weight - Lead/lead free wire under thorax
Thread - Black
Tail - Black hackle fibers/moose body hair
Body - Black chenille (underbody of lead wire optional)
Thorax - Yellow chenille
Wing case - Black chenille
Hackle - Black/brown hackle

 

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Montana Nymph
 
Hook - Mustad R73-9672/R74-9672, size 2-14
Weight - Lead/lead free wire under thorax
Thread - Black
Tail - Black hackle fibers/moose body hair
Body - Black chenille (underbody of lead wire optional)
Thorax - Fluorescent green chenille
Wing case - Black chenille
Hackle - Black/brown hackle

 

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Montana Nymph
 
Hook - Mustad R73-9672/R74-9672, size 2-14
Weight - Lead/lead free wire under thorax
Thread - Black
Tail - Black hackle fibers/moose body hair
Body - Black chenille (underbody of lead wire optional)
Thorax - Orange chenille
Wing case - Black chenille
Hackle - Black/brown hackle
 
The original was designed to imitate large dark stonefly nymphs of Northern American. 
 
It was first tied by Lew Oatman of New York.

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I've been going through David Hughes' "Essential Flies" book hoping to put together a single box of trout flies I can take pretty much anywhere, anytime, and have the "essentials". I'm not sure that's what I'm going to end up with, but it's fun trying. Anyways, I've finished the dry fly section:

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Next, on to the nymphs...

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