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General Fry Imitation

Sea Run Cutthroat

Hook – Gamakatsu T10-6H or equivalent
Thread - Black
Tail – Red or orange hackle fibers
Body - Flat silver tinsel.
Throat – Red hackle fibers
Wing – Mixed strands of dyed yellow, orange, blue, green and white bucktail

Originator: Roderick Haig-Brown.

Fly Patterns of British Columbia - Arthur James Lingren
 
Norm Frechette said:
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Raccoon

Paul Lasha Originator

Midge Emerger

Hook - Mustad 94840 or equivalent
Thread - Black
Shuck - Teal flank fibers or grizzly hackle tip
Butt - White ostrich herl
Shellback - Elk or deer hair
Body - Your favorite dubbing

Tie in a variety of colors by altering the tying thread and dubbing colors.

Tying Emergers - Schollmeyer & Leeson
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Great pattern. I’ve had some banner days on that pattern. I got turned on to it by fishing near the originator one day. I now tie them with lots of different body colors and a foam back to increase the durability.
SF
 
Stonedfish said:
Great pattern. I’ve had some banner days on that pattern. I got turned on to it by fishing near the originator one day. I now tie them with lots of different body colors and a foam back to increase the durability.
SF
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The Raccoon can be a real saver of the day, Norm's tie brings back a lot of fond memories. (His tie looks so much better than the ones in my box.)
 
Spruce Moth Skater

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hook - WFC Model 3 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 tan
shuck - Congo Hair Shiner Tan
rib - xsmall wire silver
body - medium tinsel pearl
wing/thorax- pronghorn
wingcase/lip - 2mm foam tan

Regards,
Scott
 
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I normally tie these with a flatter head and a diving collar. I will see how this one swims in about 2 1/2 months

Diving Frog

Hook- TMC 8089 #6
Tail grizzly outside of olive outside of Yellow dyed grizzly rooster neck hackles
first collar: yellow and olive rooster
second collar- olive Silicone rubber
third collar- tips of deer hair
body- olive over chartreuse over yellow deer
front legs- olive silicone
Eyes- 6 mm
 
MT_Flyfisher said:
Thanks for posting this. It brings back memories.

Chauncey Lively was originally from Waynesburg, PA and for many years had articles on his innovative fly patterns in each issue of the PA Angler Magazine. Many of his flies are in museums and private collectors possessions. He was inducted into the PA Fly Fishing Museum Association’s Hall of Fame in 2020. His book titled “Chauncy Lively’s Flybox” can still be purchased on Amazon and EBay.

(I see in your profile that you you were from Pittsburgh, PA. Good to know there are a few of us Pennsylvanians on this forum. My wife was a 4th generation Pittsburgh native, and we have a number of items from Pittsburgh in our home, some of which date back 100 years. I have some old snelled flys and fly boxes that belonged to my wife’s grandfather; he died in 1962.)
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Man you're bringing back a lot of old memories. As a kid, used to love reading Chauncy's articles. Then there was that "upstart fly fishing guide" down around Harrisburg . Bob something or other, Oh, Yeah, Clouser........😁
 
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Add another to the pile of "must swim" my next time out.

here are the stats: multiple stacks of bucktail (afterdark & purple from PrimoTail), tail of bucktail with an overlay of Icelandic sheep, only included a couple of sections where I added some purple/black flash (I'm one who tends to go on the lighter side of flash), foam disc (I've come to like these more than the reverse popper style as my movement is just flat out better plus lower cost), titan dubbed head. All of this is tied on a 55mm shank with a free-flowing Owner 3/0 herring hook at the back of that. It came out at 9". I freakin' love tying this type of shit...

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