Sweeeet. I will be tying some of the bottom one for this weekend. DonO ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Davenport To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 10:34 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] Big Tiger Trout
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 My Daughter's Name Art website: www.wishberrie.com Home Page: http://homepage.mac.com/tsmd Webshots Albums: http://community.webshots.com/user/tsmdav ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.25/926 - Release Date: 7/29/2007 11:14 PM
