Fished Quake lake a few years ago , with a couple leech patterns , couldn’t keep them off , one of the best days on that lake , went back two days later , same flies , same area , same technique, one whitefish .@iveofione This was the best color combination I had luck with last year-
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So take my advice and don’t plan on this color combo working this year.
I have fished Henry’s for 4 years now and have 4 full boxes of the “hot fly”, that wasn’t the “hot fly” the next year.
The above will probably make 5 full boxes of the “hot fly”, that didn’t work the next year…
I would have to dig around, but basically a long shank hook like you'd use for a Pat's stone in a size 6 or thereabouts, like 3x long, they look more like a Carys Special with no tail, and the 'soft hackle' is long, like as long as you can get, almost as long as the body, which I used to make out of (gasp) chenille, ribbed with copper wire.
that's a cool looking soft hackle for sure!
I’ve caught some good fish in both Hebgen , and Quake , but it’s hard to beat Henry’s in size .
Is that purple Krystal Flash for the wing? Or is it just the way the light is hitting it that makes it look purple in the pic?
The wing is Pearl Krystal Flash, and the body is SLF Pearl Prism Fiber, tied in a dubbing loop. You could use Ice Dub, but I’m a big fan of SLF, which is finer and softer than Ice Dub, and I think it gives more motion, simulating life underwater. I tie them mostly in a size 12 heavy wire nymph hook with, as you said, a heavy wire copper rib and Hungarian Partridge hackle, and rusty orange tying thread.
