What's in your vise?
- Thread starter Billy
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Yellow Dun
Ribbing - Yellow silk
Body - Gray fur
Hackle -Yellow
Wings - Brown mallard
Trout - Ray Bergman
Wren
Tail - Gray mallard
Tip - Yellow silk
Ribbing -Yellow silk
Body - Light gray floss
Hackle - Brown
Wing - Brown mallard
Trout - Ray Bergman
Bloody Mary
Hook - Single salmon
Thread - Black
Tag - Oval gold tinsel
Tail - Amherst pheasant crest
Body - Black wool
Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel
Throat - Red hackle
Wing - Red dyed calf tail
Cheeks - Jungle cock shorts (optional)
Bloody Mary (fabri-mouches.ca)
Peacock breast feathers, nice!!
Night Beauty
Variant
Mario Dussault
Hook - Single or double salmon
Thread - White
Tip - Copper wire
Tail - Peacock sword
Butt - Green uni stretch
Ribbing - Copper wire
Body - 3/4 Rear: White uni glo floss*; 1/4 Front: Peacock herl
Hackle - Heron feather or Spey-like substitute**
Underwing - White uni glo floss***
Wing - Squirrel tail hair dyed green.
Throat - Peacock sword
Head - White glow-in-the-dark thread
*I Substituted white uni glo floss with uni stretch
**I used pheasant rump
***I used pearl krystal flash
The Night Beauty (fabri-mouches.ca)
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roger stephens
Steelhead
Great looking fly! It should fish as well and have a 40 to 60% hook up ratio like my T.W. Sand Shrimp pattern. It is my go to pattern when fishing top water flies for sea-run cutthroat. It only takes a couple of minutes to tie the pattern.
The flat bottom foam head will allow the pattern to have a great v-wake as it skates across the water surface. IMHO tube flies are the great when fishing top water patterns since it is easier to release fish since the pattern will often slide up the line when landing a sea-un cutthroat. Thus you only have to deal with a small hook during release of a fish. Often the hook will fall out if the fish is netted. Also it is easier to change out a new hook.
After you have used your pattern, let use know how it worked especially the hook up ratio.
Roger
