Kms
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Golden olive mohair crystal worm with opalescent green glass bead on partridge H1AXL #18.
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salmo
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Cheech at Fly Fish Food posted a video on the cased caddis. I blended my own dubbing and added a black head to the green emerging from the case. Pretty easy tie.
DO_inthewoods
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That looks like a perfect dubbing blend to mimic cases!
salmo
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Cool looking cool.
Kms
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All poly parachute sulphur variants, red-head tailed #18 & plain #16, on curved and straight hooks.
dc410
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This is one of my all time favorite early season wet flies. It’s called the Usk Naylor and I tied this one on a size 14 hook. I generally run it as my top fly on a 3 wet fly rig particularly early in the season and it has produced a lot of fish over the years.
GoldenRfly
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I’m going to try this one. I found a YouTube video.
What hackle did you use?
A friend was one of the Fly Tiers at the Lancaster Show last month and he said purple has increased in popularity and with his orders.
dc410
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It’s a great pattern. I used a small covert feather off of a Jackdaw wing for the hackle. The head is way too big on the one I posted and it would have been better with one less turn of hackle, but then the head would have been even bigger! 😉 However, I do like the purple head to be a prominent feature of the pattern and I intentionally wrap the bronze mallard body a bit loosely to let a bit of purple sneak through on the body. I do believe there are times when purple can serve as a trigger. Post one up if you tie one! The Usk Naylor doesn’t get a lot of recognition.
Kms
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Cool profile. Did you bend the hook?
dc410
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Woven Body Stone Fly... Size 8.. The late George Harvey showed me how to tie this fly at the Orvis Shop that was in Forest County PA back in the day. The owner of the store Tom Greenlee was the a great man, always took time out of his day to give me and my little brother some casting lessons.
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That is one of my favorite flies to tie. I learned how from Steve at Fly Fishers Paradise back in the 80’s.
mt_flyfisher
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I always like your flys, John.
And it got me fooling around on the vise, but I don’t have any good Bronze Mallard (nor can I pronounce Usk Nailor) so I tied this one with pheasant tail, partridge, and purple Uni tying thread. (I don’t have any Pearsall’s in purple either). If it catches any trout I’m going to name it Just Nail’er. 🦄
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Bergman Fontinalis
"Phil Armstrong"
Tail - White over gray over orange duck or goose quill segments
Body - Alternate ribs of gray and orange wool
Hackle - Dark blue-gray
Wing - White over gray over orange duck or goose quill segments
Trout - Ray Bergman
Fontinalis Fin
"Phil Armstrong"
Tail - White hackle
Ribbing - Gold tinsel
Body - Orange wool
Hackle - Furnace
Wing - White over gray over orange duck or goose quill segments
Trout - Ray Bergman
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Brookie Fin
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel; Shaw’s dressing calls for silver wire
Body - Flat silver tinsel
Hackle - White hackle fibers; Shaw’s original dressing calls for polar bear
Wing - Narrow strips of white, black, and red; married to and topping remainder of orange goose quill sections
Don Bastian Note
Shaw’s formula in the recipe plate for the Brookie Fin calls for making the wing 2/3 orange, and 1/9 each Red, Black, and White. That is accurate, but personally I don’t feel like doing more math than I absolutely have to, especially math with fractions, and when I’m tying flies to boot. I generally use two strips each of white, black, and red, and make the rest of the wing, about 2/3, orange. That’s good for #4, #6, and #8 hooks. On a #2 hook, I’d go with three barbs or flues, and on #10 and #12 hooks, one must use only a single barb each of the topping colors. This type of detailed married-wing wet fly tying is what separates the men from the boys, or the women from the girls. It requires good keen eyesight, and steady hands.
No mention of the origin of the Brookie Fin appears in Shaw’s book, but it is quite likely that she originated it. She concluded her writing on the Brookie Fin with these words: “This is an exceptionally good wet-fly pattern, producing strikes when other patterns may prove to be ineffectual under many fishing conditions.”
Flies for Fish and Fishermen: The Wet Flies - Helen Shaw
Brookie Fin – Classic Wet Fly
The Brookie Fin is another of the six (known to me) historic brook trout fin wet fly patterns. This pattern was published in Helen Shaw’s second book, Flies for Fish and Fishermen: The Wet Fl…
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dc410
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That fly will definitely catch fish, John! Nice tie.
