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17 minutes ago, chugbug27 said:

Oh those are both great. Was the visible your variation? Looks like a secret agent

Thank you chug. Yep my variation.  I've been kind of enamored lately by Catskill style flies. I'd have done brown and white, but....didn't have the right size of those colors on my bench so used what I have. I'll def try it, show knows it just might be that secret agent we all need to have a couple of in the box. 

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Pheasant tail nymph - unweighted

Hook - 16 2XL long

Thread - Dk brown Uni

Tail - Pheasant tail fibers

Ribbing - Sm Uni wire, gold and chartreuse 

Body - Pheasant tail fibers

Wing case - Pheasant tail fibers

Thorax - UV peacock herl

Legs - Pheasant tail fibers

Instead of using the tips of the PT fibers for the legs I tied them in backwards so the curly Q’s from ripping the fibers from the quill became the legs. I dabbled the curls and the wing case with a brown sharpie to give them more of a brown color. 

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The Grand Duke Special

Rear Hook – Mustad 9671 or equivalent, size 8

Thread - Black

Tail – Red hackle

Ribbing – Oval silver tinsel

Body - Burnt orange floss

 

Connecting wire – Beadalon .015, .018 or .024-inch diameter wire

 

Front hook – Mustad 9671 or equivalent, size 6

Thread – Black

Ribbing – Flat silver tinsel

Body - Burnt orange floss

Ribs – Oval silver tinsel

Throat - Red hackle

Wing – Lavender bucktail over mauve krystal flash over white bucktail

Topping – Peacock herl

Cheeks – Jungle cock

Eyes – Painted black over white (Optional)

Orientation of the rear hook may be pointed upward or downward as desired

 

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Barrington

Winged Wet Fly

Hook - Mustad 3399 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Tag - Gold tinsel

Ribbing - Gold tinsel

Body - Peacock herl

Throat - Brown hackle 

Wing - Mallard flank (I used teal)

Trout - Ray Bergman

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20 hours ago, Poopdeck said:

Instead of using the tips of the PT fibers for the legs I tied them in backwards so the curly Q’s from ripping the fibers from the quill became the legs. I dabbled the curls and the wing case with a brown sharpie to give them more of a brown color. 

 

 

 

That is a great idea and fantastic execution.

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18 hours ago, DarrellP said:

Pretty cool idea.  It would work great on Stonefly patterns.

16 minutes ago, Sandan said:

That is a great idea and fantastic execution.

I’ve done these before on larva type flies after seeing Davie McPhail do it in one of his videos. I do like it.

This is why I like fly tying, the constant changes, variations and different ways to tie the same old flies. I’m experimenting with glass beads now to see if they bring anything to the fish catching table. I am a fan of the brown sharpie over the natural pheasant tail. Great color. 

Pheasant tail nymph - unweighted

Hook - 16 2XL long

Bead - Sm caddis green glass bead

Thread - Dk brown Uni

Tail - Pheasant tail fibers

Ribbing - Sm Uni wire, chartreuse 

Body - Pheasant tail fibers

Wing case - Pheasant tail fibers colored brown with a sharpie

Thorax - UV peacock herl

Legs - Pheasant tail fibers

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Bugskin Stonefly

Hook- Mustad 9674 straight eye with 2 lengths .0015 lead free wire lashed parallel      Thread- golden yellow

Tail / Antenna- two light ginger stripped hackle stems

Body- tan bugskin strip wrapped over dubbed profile body       Wingcases- bugskin profiled with wingburner 

Legs- knotted turkey biots with dubbed thorax (golden yellow beaver)      Head /eye's / collar bugskin wrapped bead chain eye's finished in back of eyes to form collar

fine tipped black sharpie to make molted pattern, can change color on stream with brown or black sharpie (top of fly) at some point in life I need to master tying the leg knots they drive me buggy.

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7 minutes ago, Poopdeck said:

I’ve done these before on larva type flies after seeing Davie McPhail do it in one of his videos. I do like it.

This is why I like fly tying, the constant changes, variations and different ways to tie the same old flies. I’m experimenting with glass beads now to see if they bring anything to the fish catching table. I am a fan of the brown sharpie over the natural pheasant tail. Great color. 

Pheasant tail nymph - unweighted

Hook - 16 2XL long

Bead - Sm caddis green glass bead

Thread - Dk brown Uni

Tail - Pheasant tail fibers

Ribbing - Sm Uni wire, chartreuse 

Body - Pheasant tail fibers

Wing case - Pheasant tail fibers colored brown with a sharpie

Thorax - UV peacock herl

Legs - Pheasant tail fibers

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Sometimes I'll use a clear/silver lined glass bead or a root beer for PT nymphs. I like the green 

 

 

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Nice flies everybody. 

Nice legs @poopdeck, have never seen that before.  

 

15 minutes ago, Poopdeck said:

I’m experimenting with glass beads now

I like using glass beads, they seem to work well as a thorax.  The only drawback is they will occasionally break, especially on bigger nymphs fished in fast water.  

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The latter did really well for me this past spring.  

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Have you tried glass in the back of the fly to imitate the bubble a pre-emerging caddis forms?

Kim

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10 hours ago, WWKimba said:

Have you tried glass in the back of the fly to imitate the bubble a pre-emerging caddis forms?

I have not, though I see that style often enough, I should give it a shot.    

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Lawson's Caddis Emerger

Mike Lawson

Hook – Mustad 94840 or equivalent

Thread - Tan

Body - Hare's ear

Shuck/back/underwing – Tan z-lon, antron yarn, hi-viz etc

Ribbing – Gold or copper wire

Wing – 2 partridge feathers

Head - Peacock herl

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Flat Wing Mackerel Gurgler 

After admiring niveker's Flat Wing Gurgler in the challenge thread I wanted to add a few to my salt box 1st attempt will see how it fishes when the schoolies start. I don't think it would survive a bluefish although not many of my flat wings do.

Hook- Mustad 34007      Thread- white nylon / red over the white for gill hotspot

Tail- ice dubbed pillow with sparse white bucktail support short white hackle tied flat, dubbed pillow with sparse yellow bucktail and chartreuse hackle tied flat, dubbed pillow with two blue barred hackles tied flat. peacock herl topping

Body- UV ice dubbing worked up with tail    Head- preassembled 2mm blue foam folded and glued prior to tying in plastic hobby eye's glued, red thread overwrapped head to provide gill hotspot.

 

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