Fly of the day

[sandfly]

past 2 days this has been the fly of choice. Fished wet fly style.

 

[Lonewolve]

Bob,
This is a nice, i use similiar patterns for Cattaruagurus for The Erie Steelhead tied on Daiichi 1270,whats your choice of hackle? a variant ginger?I love it its great when you can get away from the microscope of hatch matching and get em with colors you wouldn't expect otherwise.
Tight Wraps & Tight Lines
Rick Wallace
Cant wait to get that hackle/tail guage since im a tying tool collector.

 

[sandfly]

Rick,
The fly was originally for steel head. I had one in my wet fly book the other day and figured what the hey. it worked during the MB hatch. Tied a few more for tuesday and they worked again, 2 of us hit fish with it so it wasn't a fluke. The hackle is from my birds I have for the mottled feathers. Just put another 14 eggs under a hen to hatch some more. gage should be there today or thursday.

 

[afishinado]

I tie a purple fly the works well for me at times. It's a purple and starling soft hackle: Purple floss body with silver wire ribbing and starling hackle.

 

[jjsjigs]

Purple Streetwalker varient, eh?

 

[Lonewolve]

Bob,
I swing alot of steelhead hairwings tied on Mustad 36890 in sizes 12 and 10 and the browns/rainbows and Brookies love em i try to present greased line. I might be interested in a hen cape like that im also looking for a cream/white speckled hen.
Tight Wraps & Tight Lines
Rick Wallace

 

[Leteras]

Purple is an underused color. Its on fire some days. Some days its not. I know that steelhead love that and blue. Those are the two colors that are visible early in the morning and the last tow colors to fade out in the evening.

 

[franklin]

sandfly wrote:
Rick,
The fly was originally for steel head. I had one in my wet fly book the other day and figured what the hey. it worked during the MB hatch. Tied a few more for tuesday and they worked again, 2 of us hit fish with it so it wasn't a fluke. The hackle is from my birds I have for the mottled feathers. Just put another 14 eggs under a hen to hatch some more. gage should be there today or thursday.

I like that hackle color, good match for March Brown. BTW are you selling any necks or just using for your own ties? I have a nice collection of hen necks but am always looking for more with interesting color/patterns.

The purple cow in my avatar only uses purple flies.

 

[sandfly]

Franklin,
Looks PINK to me. then again you hang around Loum alot...I don't kill my birds just get them at molting season. Once you kill a certain bird you are done. This way i have an endless supply. I do sell limited quantities of feathers.

 

[franklin]

sandfly wrote:
Franklin,
Looks PINK to me. then again you hang around Loum alot...

Could be, I do have an urge to steal flies!

 

[sandfly]

I heard he was stealing flies off of a guy on the saucon last night and almost got into a fight...ask him about it sometime...