SpeyrodGB
Steelhead
I admire your stick to it ness. Keep up the good work. I have never had much luck with a pt nymph in streams. I have done much better in still waters with them.
What's in your vise?
- Thread starter Billy
- Start date
Thx. I had given up on the prince nymph too, like others were saying, but with rubber tails or coq de leon it worked better for me, I even got a whitefish. Most folks said it worked for them, so maybe I just had to tweak it enough and fish it a certain way to get confidence like James was saying.. Just like I'd given up on muddler years ago, then Zak got me onto them. These classic patterns are that way for a reason, and I'm certainly not the expert, so I don't mind retrying what others recommend. I hate to get skunked, like someone said in another thread, but other than that I have fun just fiddling around trying stuff.
Capelin Body Cosseboom
Salmon Fly
Earl Roberts
Hook - Single Salmon
Thread - Black & red
Body/Tail - Silver mylar tubing
Wing - Grey squirrel tail
Collar -Yellow hackle
Head - Red
Fly Patterns of Canada - Paul C Marriner
Brayshaw’s Fancy
Caddis Fly
Tom Brayshaw
Hook - Mustad 98480 or equivalent
Thread - Black
Body - Peacock herl
Throat - Brown mottled partridge feather fibers
Wing - Greyish deer hair, sparse
Fly Patterns of Canada - Paul C Marriner
Diving Caddis
Caddis Fly
Mac Warner
Hook - Mustad 9672 or equivalent, size 8-14
Thread - Black
Butt - Lime green dubbing
Body - Olive dubbing (or dark olive, brown or black
Wing - White polar bear or substitute
Hackle - Brown hen
Fly Patterns of Canada - Paul C Marriner
Scottp
Legend
Golden Invicta Mini Shrimp
Notional.
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 black
tail - golden pheasant rump feather yellow
rib - small wire gold
body - Starburst dubbing gold
hackle - brown
1st shoulder - pheasant rump
2nd shoulder - grizzly hen dyed Silver Doctor Blue (1 pack Koolaid Ice Blue Raspberry/1 cup water)
Regards,
Scott
Notional.
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 black
tail - golden pheasant rump feather yellow
rib - small wire gold
body - Starburst dubbing gold
hackle - brown
1st shoulder - pheasant rump
2nd shoulder - grizzly hen dyed Silver Doctor Blue (1 pack Koolaid Ice Blue Raspberry/1 cup water)
Regards,
Scott
Crowsnest Olive Wet
Winged Wet Fly
Jim Fox
Hook - Standard wet fly hook, size 10-14
Thread - Olive
Tail - Mallard flank*
Body - Fine olive dubbing
Wing - Wood duck
Beard - Light brown hackle
*When your mallard flank is crap, the next bird up is teal
Quite possibly named for the Crowsnest River in Canada
Fly Patterns of Canada - Paul C Marriner
WOW.... nice.
Shushan Postmaster
Hook - Mustad 9575
Thread - Black
Tail - Strip of mottled turkey
Ribbing - Flat gold tinsel
Body - Yellow floss or uni stretch
Throat - Dyed red duck quill or hackle fibers
Wing - Fox squirrel tail
Cheek - Jungle cock
A fishing fly (or lure) known as the “Shushan Postmaster” was named for Al Prindle who served as postmaster of the hamlet of Shushan, NY during 1935-1947. He was a trout fishing buddy and good friend of Lew Oatman, a pioneer of 17 new streamer fly patterns that imitated young baitfish. These streamer designs were considered “exact imitation” style as they were nearly identical to native forage fish commonly found in the nearby Battenkill River.
In 1953 Oatman honored his friendship with Prindle by producing the new fly pattern, “Shushan Postmaster”. The body of the fly is wound with light yellow floss and slightly tapered, with flat gold tinsel ribbing. The throat of the hook has a few fibers from a duck wing quill, dyed red. Extending the length of the fly is a small bunch of orange and brown fox squirrel tail hair, with a very small section of a brown mottled turkey feather near the end of the hook.
Prindle was also immortalized by Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), painter/illustrator for Saturday Evening Post for more than 40 years. Rockwell lived upriver in Arlington, Vermont from 1939 to 1953 and hired area residents to serve as his models. Prindle was depicted in Rockwell’s “Four Seasons” with fellow Shushan resident Alva Roberson and alone in the painting “Catching the Big One”, with the latter featured on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on August 3, 1929.
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Leadwing Coachman
Hook - Mustad 3906, 3906B, 3399 or equivalent
Thread - Black
Tag - Flat gold tinsel
Body - Peacock herl
Hackle - Brown
Wing - Gray duck quill slips
Scottp
Legend
Hare’s Ear Mini Shrimp
Planned to use a dyed brown rump feather for first shoulder and grizzly hen in front but tried a pheasant body feather first and liked how that turned out.
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 black
tail - golden pheasant rump feather red
rib - small wire gold
body - Ice Dub hare’s ear
hackle - brown/grizzly
shoulder - pheasant body feather
Regards,
Scott
Planned to use a dyed brown rump feather for first shoulder and grizzly hen in front but tried a pheasant body feather first and liked how that turned out.
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 black
tail - golden pheasant rump feather red
rib - small wire gold
body - Ice Dub hare’s ear
hackle - brown/grizzly
shoulder - pheasant body feather
Regards,
Scott
Gold Sand Shiner
Baitfish Imitation
Gerry Beck
Hook - Mustad 3777 or equivalent keel style hook
Thread - Black
Weight - 20 turns .025” lead/lead free wire
Body - Gold mylar tubing, tie in with red thread
Wing - Stacked white bucktail extending past hook, unraveled gold mylar tubing or gold krystal flash, black bucktail, brown bucktail
Head - Black, large
Eyes - Painted black over white
Fly Patterns of Canada - Paul C Marriner
Some small game stuff.
SF
SF
