Tail: Templedog Red
Tag: Lagartun French Tinsel, UNI Floss Red
Body: UNI Floss Green, Lagartun French Tinsel rib
Wing: Templedog Black&Red
Hackle: Wapsi Strung Schlappen black & red
Cone: Eumer Brass monster Cone Medium
Back to this pattern again today to test out the Eumer brass cone. These massive hairwings can deal with quite the large cone, and with the large hackle I put on it doesn’t get out of proportions
Tail: Arctic Fox
Body: UNI Floss Green, Lagartun French Tinsel rib
Wing: Arctic Fox Red, Templedog Black
Hackle: Wapsi Strung Schlappen in different colors
Spent some time with different hackle colors on the same base pattern to see how they turn out on the fly. The long hackle on the Wapsi packages is good for these sized tubes, but I really should get some skins with different length to be able to adjust to the pattern instead of letting the hackle dictate the size of the fly.
The red hackle came out the best together with the rest of the body:
Red from the front:
Olive hackle, this made for a more trigger color:
Olive front:
Orange hackle, here I didn’t lay the hackle the correct way, so it points up and out instead of following the curve of the fly:
Orange front:
Hook: Kamasan B100 #12
Thread: Sheer 14/0 White
Body: UNI Floss White, Prowrap Nylon (rod-wrap thread)
Thorax: Hends Superfine
Wing: Wapsi Polyproplylene
Bead: Flysite 3.0mm Pearl White
Second week of the challenge brings the keyword “Black and White”, I took the picture below earlier for the challenge and when I got home I was inspired to do something simple that reflected todays picture: black on white. I think it came out really good
Hook: Daiichi 1167 #12
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Brown
Body: UNI-Mylar Peacock #16, Wapsi Premo Deer Hair Bleached
Thorax: Hareline Hare’s Ear Plus Chocolate Brown
Wings: Wapsi Premo Deer Hair Bleached
Found this interesting 3-wing emerger pattern on facebook and thought I would have a go at it. The original image was not particularly detailed, so I winged it in terms of execution. Since this was the first attempt some of the details came out a bit wrong, but I like the overall idea behind this one.
The top view: there is a lot of deer hair in this one, it should float very good
Trout view: I really like the profile from underneath
Side view: the raised wings will make this fly sit low in the water
Hook: Mustad 94840 #14
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Brown
Tail: Hareline Mayfly Tail White
Body: Polishquills Stripped Peacock Orange
Thorax: Wapsi Squirrel Spikey Dubbing
Wing: 2xCDC White
The stripped peacock eye makes for a very good segmented body, here I have tied it on a no-hackle CDC with a 94840 from Mustad. You can of course strip the feather yourself and color them the way you want, but the quality you get from polishquills.com is great and it saves a lot of time!
View from above: the split tail can be a bit tricky to get the first time you try it, but once you get the hang of it it should be easy to do. Here I have used the thin mayfly tail from Hareline, but you can (and I often do) use any hackle/feather to form a tail.
A family picture:
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