What's in your vise?

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Heckham Peckham

Winged Wet Fly

Hook - Mustad Heritage S80AP
Thread - Black
Tail - Golden pheasant tippets
Ribbing - Flat gold tinsel
Body - Reddish seals fur, SLF or substitute
Hackle - Black hen
Wing - Slips of blue wing feathers from a mallard wing

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Scottp

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Opal Muddler

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Got the idea from Grahame Adams Pearly Muddler. Switched out the body (because the opal tinsel was sitting next to the vise) and omitted the bronze mallard (supply is perilously low); highly unlikely the trout will notice or care.

hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 black
tail - deer hair
rib - small wire gold
body - medium tinsel opal
hackle - Cree
shoulder - sharptail grouse
wing - golden pheasant body feather red
collar/head - deer hair

Regards,
Scott
 

Tom Butler

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Opal Muddler

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Got the idea from Grahame Adams Pearly Muddler. Switched out the body (because the opal tinsel was sitting next to the vise) and omitted the bronze mallard (supply is perilously low); highly unlikely the trout will notice or care.

hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 black
tail - deer hair
rib - small wire gold
body - medium tinsel opal
hackle - Cree
shoulder - sharptail grouse
wing - golden pheasant body feather red
collar/head - deer hair

Regards,
Scott
I like the colors in that one, looks like a real fish getter. I need to add the opal tinsel to my list as I've seen several ties I like that use it.
 

Tom Butler

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Random brown muddler. Hares ear tail, gold ribbed brown simiseal body, brownish tinged grizzly palmer, reddish pheasant wing and shoulder hackle, medium deer hair in sz. 8.
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Norm Frechette

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Ondawa

Hook – Straight eye bass
Thread - Red
Tag - Oval gold tinsel
Tail - Black goose
Body - Read 2/3 pale green floss, front 1/3 orange seal
Rib - Oval gold tinsel
Wing - Matched Ringneck Pheasant body feathers
Hackle - Brown hen

According to Marbury; "The Ondawa is a bass fly, to which has been given an old Indian name belonging to a little river in a valley of the Green Mountains."

Favorite Flies and Their Histories - Mary Orvis Marbury

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Mather

Hook - Straight eye bass
Thread - Red
Tag - Oval god tinsel and red floss
Body - Black ostrich herl with a waist of pale green floss
Wing - Brown speckled hen, partridge or pheasant
Hackle - Brown speckled hen, partridge or pheasant

The Mather was created by Charles Orvis and named by his friend and fishing companion, Mr. A. N. Cheney. The fly itself was named after Fred Mather, fishing editor of "The Forest and Stream" magazine.

Favorite Flies and Their Histories - Mary Orvis Marbury

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