Don, after catching that big fish and a dozen of its smaller siblings
I retired the two flies my buddy gave me. I've scanned them and
added them to the site, you can see them at
http://homepage.mac.com/tsmd/PhotoAlbum23.html
The lead fly was a simple leach pattern tied with Canadian
"spectrumized" mohair in an brown-olive color. (For those not
familiar with spectrumizing, it is a word coined to describe the
process of creating a dominant color like Brown-Olive by mixing a
bunch of colors EXCEPT Brown and Olive). It was tied with a small
green ceramic coated metal bead on a size 12 or 14 - 3x hook. It
had a short, brown marabou tail, the body was dubbed thin, then the
mohair was picked out
The trailing fly (which was the one that caught the fish) was also
on a 3x hook, one size smaller than the lead fly. It had a small
gold bead, and was dubbed using a material that I have never seen
before, which picked out nicely to form a synthetic hackle body. The
material looks like ordinary mohair in the scan, but in the light it
has a bright, metallic sparkle {Arizona Leech dubbing perhaps?). It
also has a marabou tail pulled short with a few strands of root beer
crystal flash.
After I "retired" the two battered flies I tied on some of my own
that were similar in size and color and kept catching fish.
Tom
On Jul 30, 2007, at 8:58 PM, DonO wrote:
Buggs says that was a great fish!
Dr. D wants to know the secret fly.
Thanks for sharing!
DonO
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Davenport
Here are a couple of pictures I have posted if you are interested
in seeing the fish:
http://homepage.mac.com/tsmd/PhotoAlbum23.html
Tom
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