A pattern by Walt Johnson as featured in the “Spey Flies, How to tie them” by Bob Veverka, tied on a Alec Jackson 2065 #1.5
This will be a pattern to tie down in small sizes for the rivers up north here in Norway, and for low-water, clear, rivers.
There are two variants of The Variegated Sun Fly registered on flypattern.org: one by Kelson and one by Pryce-Tannatt
Both of the variants have the same basic features: body of divided berlin wool, black front-hackle and a topping wing. Kelson calls for Macaw in tail and for horns, but here I use blue swan instead, not as stiff as Macaw, and not quite the color, but for these flies (that go into the fishing box) I wanted to use up some 2nd grade topping and try to tie up some quick and fishable patterns without the need for all the materials called for.
Tied on Partridge M2 #1/0
From the William Blacker seris “Standard Flies”: Red Palmer, tied on a old #10 blind eye with horse-hair gut
http://flypattern.org/authors/william-blacker/book/the-art-of-angling/pattern/red-palmer-fly
With blind-eye (and spade) hooks, you could get hooks with a gut attached: in the beginning silk-gut but later with nylon. A lot of these were for bait fish, but also for trout and small salmon flies.
I have added a new section to flyhooks.org to document some of these that I have in my collection: https://flyhooks.org/togut
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