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[GoldenRfly]

CDC Loopwing Hendrickson Emerger
Size 16

 

[nfrechet]

Guinea Fly

Tail - Pheasant tail
Ribbing - Gold Tinsel
Body - Green floss
Hackle - Brown
Wing - Guinea

Author's Note

Also made with scarlet body and hackle and white tail.

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

 

[nfrechet]

Carolina Wulff

Tail - Golden pheasant tippet
Body - Peacock herl and yellow floss
Wing - Calf tail
Hackle - Coachman brown

Carolina Wulff

Carolina Wulff tying instructions, design, and history. This is an eastern NC variant of the classic.

www.rockyrivertu.org

 

[blitzinstripes]

Size 16 pheasant tails with mottled sulphur Lively Legz.

 

[6xAdams(Jones)]

I hadn’t thought of it as the mothership of all Griffiths Gnats, but it just might be!

I doubt there are many guys who would think of that as a green drake imitation. But it has worked for me, so why not?

On a related subject, I recently acquired a box of flies from an 86 year old fellow, who had a very large collection of fly fishing gear and tying materials. The box contained dozens of beautifully tied flies that he had tied in several different sizes (#12-#18) that were comprised of just mixed grizzly and light or medium brown palmered hackle. I didn’t ask him why he had so many files in that same pattern, but I’m sure it was because they worked well for him. I never saw a hatch of something like those flies in (say) a size #12, but if they worked, why not?

That also reminds me of an old guy I ran into several times on the upper reaches of Slate Run years back who only used Royal Coachman dry flies, that he fished down stream. His fly boxes only had Royal Coachman flies in them, and whenever I asked how he was doing, he always showed me his wicker creel than had several trout in it - more than I was catching at the time. Whoever would have thought that a Royal Coachman ever imitated anything specifically? But if it works, why not?

On a size 8 hook with that much material in the film, I expect a MOAGGs makes an effective cripple imitation of any kind of drake.

 

[6xAdams(Jones)]

Do drugs

Shouldn't that be a white rabbit?