Simple Fly Diaries

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Next fly... A simple wet yellow stone. It is a 4x size 10 streamer hook. Oyster and Yellow Ochre Jamieson Shetland Spindrift yarn and the biggest partridge I could find. Again the pic does not do the yarn it's due credit, but when you twist them together it looks good. What I need is pheasant feathers. Can anyone send me some spares? I'll share some yarn. Anyway... Can't wait to try it.

 

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Second try. Might have over wrapped the feather.

 

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Using grizzly hen soft hackle feathers will get ya some longer length. That's what I've been using lately. Can get em olive, etc.

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Here is a more accurate pic

 

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The simple scud. I don't know why but BSC trout love this color scud. Took my old recipe and used new techniques from book.

14 size scud hook. Five so wraps of lead. Ice dubbing pheasant colored dubbed on x-small brass wire. No thread some super glue. Use tag end of the base wrap to rib it.

 

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Simple wet midge... Red midge hook. This is a size 20. Black thread. Simply two turns of peacock herl and a starling feather. Of all the ones I have done, I'm most interested in seeing how this works.  Sorry the pic is blurry.  You get the idea :).

 

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I have two more... Walt's worm and a wet hare.  Then I have to find the time to try them out and report.