Along the Zug-bug line, Bruce Staples, the tier I watched yesterday had a
similar, favorite, nympth pattern(I forget what he called it). He used
olive dyed grizzly hackle fibers,soft, from a hen neck for the tail. Then
he tied in a rib and a strand of rug yarn and several strands of peacock.
He tapered the body with the rug yarn, then over that with the peacock and
counter wrapped a gold rib. Then a soft hackle olive grizzly for legs up
front, collared completely around to appear "in the round" as in the Brooks
patterns. He liked the action of the soft hackle up front, the barring
effect of the legs, and the fact that flies often rotate more than the
natural does, and the "tied in the round" effect makes the fly appear the
same regardless of its attitude in the water. I do not have an olive dyed
grizzly, but may have to get one. I often see these feathers being used at
tying demos. Presently, I use my Pantone pen to color the feather. Again,
Bruce emphasized where and how to fish the pattern is more important than
the pattern. Jere
----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny McMillin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: WAFF fly pattern poll
> Ok Kent and fellow listers,
>
> I'm in on this one. Here's my list:
>
> 1) Adams parachute
> 2) Stimulator
> 3) Elkhair caddis
> 4) Easy Rider (I know, tuting my own horn here, but this fly worked quite
> well for me last summer!)
> 5) #12 beadhead zugbug
> 6) Black-bead/body gold ribbed hare's ear
>
> Just a couple of notes on the above flies:
>
> I'm not sure how this works, but it seems to me that when I believe in a
> fly's ability to catch trout it somehow does. And when things are slow and
> I throw every fly in my box at them, nothing seems to work.
>
> Yes, I need to believe, my friend. I need to feel the power of belief, the
> power to decieve, the power to fool the devil himself, and yes, lo the
> clever trout with a brain the size of a BB. The very trout himself who
> refuses all offerings and leaves me skunked at the end of a long day on
the
> river...
>
> Opps, I seem to have gotten off track there...
>
> What I meant to say is that on #5, the zugbug, I've developed a trust to
> catch trout when all others fail. Don't know how else to explain it, but
> the zug usually will come through for me.
>
> On #6, the black-bead/body gold ribbed hare's ear, I tied this up after
> finding black mayfly nymph's in the Twisp River last summer. It turned out
> to be a killer fly in the other rivers I fished as well. I took my biggest
> rainbow of the year in the Yakima and Snoqualmie with it. Maybe its
luster
> will fade in the next year or so, but I believe in it, my friend, I
> believe...
>
> So let not the fear of failure keep you from casting forth your flies into
> the waters of Washington State in search of wandering trout. For yours is
> the power of faith. Faith. Faith in your fly.
>
> Preaching to the converted and
> stepping down from the pulpit now,
> Danny McMillin
>
> =============
>
>
> >So here's a question for you: if you could have just six patterns in your
> >fly box, which would they be?
> >
> >Please send me your list of 6 (or less if you feel confident!)
>
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Kent Lufkin
>
>
> --
>
> Danny McMillin -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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