Yellow belly mattress thrasher

[Steeldrifter 0]

Switched gears to some dries now. Working on some Yellow belly mattress thrashers, These are a GREAT pattern on streams that have good stone hatches. They are big enough to see easy and float well in broken water, large enough to get the attention of a good fish, and since stones hatch throughout the day you can get some surface action when theres not even a hatch of anything coming off.

 

I use these on the Au Sable and do well with them.

 

[Redwings1 0]

You tie flies Steve...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

good looking fly Steve! One of my favorites up north ;

[Steeldrifter 0]

Yeah at a certian point when you have more rods than flies I guess its time to restock the boxes

[riffleriversteelheadslayer 0]

or give away rods hint hint hint :hyst:

[Faster Fish 0]

How about posting the the material list Steve?

[Steeldrifter 0]

Hook- 2xl size 8

body- black ice dub rear 3/4 ...yellow front 1/4

black hackle feather palmered over body

wing- elk hair

 

 

One thing I like to do is once I have the body dubbed I like to take my fingers and kind'a squish the body somewhat flat before I palmer the hackle and put the wing on. Just gives a wider profile and more stable base to float on IMO.