brook trout fin wet fly

[turkey]

Hook: Mustad 3399 size 8

Tail: white saddle

Body: orange uni stretch (couldn't find my floss)

Rib: small gold oval

Wing: married duck quill

Collar: furnace hen

 

[SBecker]

Nice fly Turkey

 

[mario66pens]

Wow, love the wing.

 

[gfen]

turkey wrote:
Body: orange uni stretch (couldn't find my floss)

Utah's Fin, obviously.

 

[osprey]

Very very nice!!! My Pap used to fish a brace of wetflies xwung down and accross , i learned alot of fly tying from keeping him supplied. That fly on that Hardy say a 1000 words.

 

[blueheron]

go Fiyers.

 

[Chaz]

Beautiful, I bet that will catch some big brookies. Great photo too, thanks for sharing.

 

[eunanhendron]

nice, looks like you went for the closed rather than splayed wing....

 

[eunanhendron]

also, for those not aware, there are 7 variations of this fly.
Bergman Fontinalis
Fontinalis Fin
Brook Fin
Brookie Fin
Trout Fin
Armstrong Fontinalis
Olive Trout Fin, a Don Bastian Original

You can find more info here. I havent tied them all in a while, maybe i'll do the set again this week.

THanks for posting, Turkey

 

[DJBerg]

Man turkey, thats purdy! One day ill get into old school stuff, but for niw im sticking with the basics.

 

[turkey]

Thanks everyone. I appreciate the comments. Blueheron, it's funny that I could be so attracted to orange and black when it's wrapped on a hook and when it's on a hockey sweater it makes me nauseous ;-)

Eunan, yeah I like the wings in for some reason. I know guys like Gordon Chesney and others tie them splayed for a little more movement in the current. I think I only do it this way for aesthetics. I actually bought my current batch of quills from Don B. I kept finding quills that were chewed up or not matched up properly. I don't know if he is still selling them but when I need more I'm going to try him first.

 

[eunanhendron]

turkey wrote:
Thanks everyone. I appreciate the comments. Blueheron, it's funny that I could be so attracted to orange and black when it's wrapped on a hook and when it's on a hockey sweater it makes me nauseous ;-)

Eunan, yeah I like the wings in for some reason. I know guys like Gordon Chesney and others tie them splayed for a little more movement in the current. I think I only do it this way for aesthetics. I actually bought my current batch of quills from Don B. I kept finding quills that were chewed up or not matched up properly. I don't know if he is still selling them but when I need more I'm going to try him first.

I get my quills from Spirit River. Sometimes they're shorter than others i've found interms of barb length. I was just tying on size 7 hooks last night and it was already somewhat of a struggle to get wings right. Hook and Hackle is the only supplier i konw of that sells spirit river.

I did buy some white quills from the craft store that i dyed myself, and the barb length on those was much longer and easier to work with than the predyed quills....it really does take a lot of trial and error, and the best way to find the best quills is to see them as you buy them

 

[Mountainbrookie]

Beautiful fly and nice photo.