What Are You Tying Today?
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MJMFlyfisher
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My recommendation would actually be to ditch that style hook for that style fly.
It's overpowering for that style tie and really kinda detracts from the delicate nature of the whole thing. LOL
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Ibis White
Tip - Gold tinsel
Tail - Scarlet hackle
Body - White chenille
Hackle - Scarlet hackle
Wing - Scarlet duck or goose quill segments
Author's Note
Also made with silver tinsel rib and white floss
Ameteur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth
Ibis Yellow
Tail - Scarlet hackle
Ribbing - Gold tinsel
Body - Yellow floss
Hackle - Scarlet hackle
Wing - Scarlet duck or goose quill segments
Amateur Tyerts Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth
Jennie Lind
Tail - Blue hackle
Ribbing - Gold tinsel
Body - Yellow floss
Hackle - Scarlet
Wing - Blue duck or goose quill segments
Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth
mt_flyfisher
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I haven’t fished Green Drakes around here for many years. Mostly because my wife and I were already in Montana for the summer by the time they hatched. I hope to change that this year.
Back when I fished Green Drakes I had a handful of patterns that were popular at the time, even some extended body flies that used porcupine quills. Most of them worked to some extent, more or less, but they took a fair amount of time and materials to tie.
That changed late one evening when I ran into a guy coming back to his vehicle on Penns Creek who was toting an honest to goodness 20” brown. (That was back when it was more common to keep those big fish than it is today.). I asked him what he caught it on and he showed me his fly, still attached to his leader. I was surprised because I’d never heard of anyone using that fly for the Green Drakes but he said that’s what he always used and it caught plenty of trout.
I subsequently tied a few of those flies used them with quite a bit of success. I’ll probably have a few other patterns available to fish when the Green Drakes are around this year, but this will be my go to pattern.
Tied on a Tiemco 300 #8 streamer hook, with a dubbed muskrat fur body and Grizzly hackle, it doesn’t look much like a Green Drake. Greased with an abundance of floatant, it’s an abomination to cast, but it will float and can be fished like a dry fly. With a little less grease, or when it gets wet, it can be fished in the film, or sunk and fished subsurface.
Back when I fished Green Drakes I had a handful of patterns that were popular at the time, even some extended body flies that used porcupine quills. Most of them worked to some extent, more or less, but they took a fair amount of time and materials to tie.
That changed late one evening when I ran into a guy coming back to his vehicle on Penns Creek who was toting an honest to goodness 20” brown. (That was back when it was more common to keep those big fish than it is today.). I asked him what he caught it on and he showed me his fly, still attached to his leader. I was surprised because I’d never heard of anyone using that fly for the Green Drakes but he said that’s what he always used and it caught plenty of trout.
I subsequently tied a few of those flies used them with quite a bit of success. I’ll probably have a few other patterns available to fish when the Green Drakes are around this year, but this will be my go to pattern.
Tied on a Tiemco 300 #8 streamer hook, with a dubbed muskrat fur body and Grizzly hackle, it doesn’t look much like a Green Drake. Greased with an abundance of floatant, it’s an abomination to cast, but it will float and can be fished like a dry fly. With a little less grease, or when it gets wet, it can be fished in the film, or sunk and fished subsurface.
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