Peppy Scud

[dpitt]

@Phil Lilley turned me on to this pattern. I fish it a lot in all conditions year round.  Rolan Duffield designed this fly and according to a video Phil  made, material was from his dog,  I use Awesome Possum.  It's an interestingly simple pattern. In my experience it performs better, or at least as well, as a more realistically tied scud patterns.   Rolan indicates that the longer fibers "breath" in the water.

It's a very quick ty, Phil pointed out to me that trimming can be eliminated if the dubbing to about 1/2", making it an even quicker ty. 

 

 

 

[kjackson]

The blinking link tells me I have to sign in (which I've done at the OA site) and then goes blank when I click on "Learn more".  But from the one image that's shown, the fly bears a strong resemblance to one of my favorite  flies I used on the Cowlitz River.  That pattern got me into fly tying when my father bought into the idea and ordered some stuff and tools from Herter's.  The body of that fly was nothing more than mink hair dubbed in a noodle with the guard hairs picked out. I would add a partridge hackle, and that was basically it.  Trout and juvenile salmon loved it.

[dpitt]

28 minutes ago, kjackson said:

The blinking link tells me I have to sign in (which I've done at the OA site) and then goes blank when I click on "Learn more".  But from the one image that's shown, the fly bears a strong resemblance to one of my favorite  flies I used on the Cowlitz River.  That pattern got me into fly tying when my father bought into the idea and ordered some stuff and tools from Herter's.  The body of that fly was nothing more than mink hair dubbed in a noodle with the guard hairs picked out. I would add a partridge hackle, and that was basically it.  Trout and juvenile salmon loved it.

Give it a shot now, I think I had it marked private... Let me know if you can't see it. Sorry about that