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Thanks chugbug27 . Yes the wings were a bear.  Need to spend more time on quilled wings.

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Last night's Bugs and Bourbon. 

Darth Baetis variation. A Greg Garcia pattern. 

Hook: U202(tmc 2487 equivalent) size 22

Thread: Uni 8/0 purple

Tail: 3 rooster pheasant tail fibers

Rib: X-Small UTC red wire

Wingcase: black magnum flashabou

Legs: Veevus Iris, purple

Thorax: Purple ice dub

To list individually each of you that are rocking this month's thread would take pages to do. That said you're all really killing it. Keep up that stellar work!

 

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11 minutes ago, Sandan said:

To list individually each of you that are rocking this month's thread would take pages to do. That said you're all really killing it. Keep up that stellar work!

x1

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Golden Quail

pretty obscure pattern, I think, I came across in Trout, by Ray Bergman, 1952 ed.  Setting those wings is a bit above my pay grade, but I muddled through.  Hackle should be thicker and maybe shorter, butt should be neater, tinsel body should be smoother.  

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Bergman's recipe and the illustration in his book:

Body: Rear half flat gold tinsel. Front half light orange chenille

Tail: Golden Pheasant Crest

Hackle: Plymouth or Barred Rock (grizzly)

Wing: Fan Wings from Necks of Cock California Valley Quail

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(copied from Trout, by Ray Bergman, 1952 ed., plate 17)

I also came across a recipe in Mike Valla's book, 'The Founding Flies: 43 American Masters, Their Patterns and Influences' p.285

My subs in ()

Hook: #12-14 (12)

Thread: Beige (Tan)

Tail: Golden Pheasant Crest (random yellow fiber from the trash bin on my desk, too soft for a dry tail)

Wing: Grayish white quail breast feather or equivalent (bobwhite breast feather)

Body: Rear - Gold tinsel.  Front - one wrap orange chenille (orange yarn fibers, dubbed)

Hackle: Grizzly

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Edited for accuracy

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@Sandan  I really like that guy ^^^!   I can tie the small stuff but I don’t like to fish the small stuff. Can’t see the tippet 

much anymore and when tying a knot I feel like I’m wrestling with cobwebs.

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@Moshup. Thanks, you're doi9ng some great work this month also, as always. I know what you mean about the small stuff, and around here 22 isn't all that small especially in the winter and early spring. I have 2.75+ bifocal lenses in the bottom of my shades. Without that I'd be hard pressed to get 1X through a size 2 hook eye. It's really fun when it's cold out and your hands are shaking. 😉

 

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17 minutes ago, Sandan said:

@Moshup. Thanks, you're doi9ng some great work this month also, as always. I know what you mean about the small stuff, and around here 22 isn't all that small especially in the winter and early spring. I have 2.75+ bifocal lenses in the bottom of my shades. Without that I'd be hard pressed to get 1X through a size 2 hook eye. It's really fun when it's cold out and your hands are shaking. 😉

 

Happiness is threading a 16lb tippet through a 1/0 eyehook on a shortsleeved afternoon.  Then again you could also be a drowning victim or lunch for a Great White that now seems to call Massachusetts home.  

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Growing up and learning to tie I was pretty much influenced by the Catskill fisheries. When I 

entered my 40’s I had a friend introduce to the saltwater side and I fell in love with it.  This is a juvy mackerel imitation

that I’ve used with a lot of success on Cape Cod in the spring.

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@Pbass       “Western Green Drake”

Hook.  .........    Tiemco100. Sz 14.  ***. Should use Daichi 300 sz 14

Thread ........    Utc 70.    Olive

Tail.      ........    Golden cdc,6 pheasant tail fbrs

Body.    .......    Turkey Biot. Olive

Thorax. .......    Olive dubbing your choice

Wing     .......    Snowshoe hare

Hackle. ......     Whiting Rooster cape.  Grizzly dyed olive

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Little White Streamer

Hook - Straight eye streamer hook, size 8

Thread - White

Tail - Red hackle fibers

Body - Pearl flat braid

Wing - White polar bear, bucktail, calf tail or goat hair under a small amount of gold and green flash

Throat - Red hackle fibers

Head - White with a small black dot to represent an eye

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