A test !

[sandfly]

heres a fly for you to identify the materials. 1st one to get all 3 materials wins a prize !!!

 

[The_Sasquatch]

Thread, feathers/fur, and a hook.

You just got Squatched!

 

[McSneek]

Brown hen hackle, white cdc and sulphur yellow haretron dubbing.

 

[hbgbswanson]

to my naive eye....

Pheasant tail, white cdc, yellow rabbit dubbing

 

[McSneek]

Tail looks to fine to be pheasant tail barbules - that's why I went with hen hackle.

 

[gaeronf]

Pheasant Tail, White CDC, Rabbit Dubbing in yellow

Edit: Oops. Sorry. Someone already guessed that! That's what I think it is though.

 

[mcwillja]

PT, white polypropylene wing, yellow flyrite dubbing

 

[gaeronf]

Ah! I want a redo. Even if I was right before it doesn't matter I would've already lost.

Pheasant Tail, White Marabou, yellow Rabbit dubbing

 

[The_Sasquatch]

Knowing Sandfly, its probably tied with some obscure material that no one makes anymore but he gets from the fly tying black market ;-)

 

[Foxgap239]

Unless both the tail and abdomen are the same material which I don't think they are, looks like 4 materials to me. Tail is hackle fibers, abdomen is PT, wing is white CDC and thorax is hare's ear dubbing.

 

[Ramcatt]

eagle claw bait hook and aisle 6 of a craft store

 

[sandfly]

so far none have gotton one item yet, squash it is not hard to get materials....not craft stores either but genuine fly tying materials..easy to get, and readily availible. a few have come close to the tail, but not yet... keep trying as I am getting the prize together.......


the wing material is found in nature...

 

[N8ureboy]

quils for the tail

 

[FrequentTyer]

I think the tail might be muskrat guard hairs. And the wing is a chicken or maybe turkey feather similar to a bleached turkey flat.
Now I'm just guessing, but the abdomen is dubbed, and I would guess muskrat to go along with the tail, and the thorax is some coarse dyed dubbing like hare's mask.

 

[beadhead2]

tail javalina
body musksrat dubbing
wing zlon
thorax beaver dubbing

 

[beeber2]

chicken feather, the other two have me stumped

 

[sandfly]

Ok a few clues for you !
1 the tail and abdomen are the same material, hen was close but not it.

2 the wing material was used during WWII for pilots and is still used today in some things

3 the thorax is a material most of you throw away from the feather..

 

[hbgbswanson]

partridge, silk, afterfeather

 

[LouM]

wood chuck tail, turkey biot body, thorax yellow dubbing (I dont think what kind makes any diference)

 

[dc410]

Sandfly must have a friend who is a barber. I'd swear that fly is made completely out of clippings off of the barber shop floor.