Searuns & Coho at Dawn - Brief Report

[The Coles]

I was dinking around at my tying desk last evening when I was hit with an idea for a fly to try on searuns in the salt.  I tied a couple of my allegedly "new" creations and fished them this AM on the fair waters of Totten Inlet.  Much to my surprise and pleasure, the pattern was a "hit" with the SRC and even a couple of Coho that are starting to show hereabouts (many takes, one small coho landed, two SRCs LDR'd).  Later today, after thinking about the materials and design I had used, I concluded that it couldn't possibly be a new pattern (gosh - is there such a thing any longer?)  Anyway, I thought I would run the recipe by my fellow list participants and see if anyone has seen, heard of, and/or fished with something similar.  For now I will refer to it as the "Nothing New"   Hook:    TMC 811S #6 Thread:  6/0 Black Body:    Steelie Brite Black Dubbing (got it some time ago from Hook and Hackle) Wing:     Rabbit Strip (Chartreuse, Black, Purple) Head:     Medium Bead Eyes - Black   Basically tied as one would a standard streamer starting with a piece of rabbit strip cut to a length of about 2x the hook shank.  I tied off the rear section of the strip just at the point where the bend of the hook commences, with about half of the length of the strip hanging past the bend of the hook. The thread was then wrapped forward to a point about 4/5 of the way up the shank towards the eye of the hook.  There I formed a dubbing loop, wrapped back to the rear tie-off point for the rabbit strip, then wrapped the dubbing material forward to the 4/5 point, tying it off there.  I then pulled the front half of the rabbit strip over the top of the dubbed shank to form the "wing".  Lastly, I wrapped a layer of thread over the remaining 1/5 of the exposed hook shank, then tied in the bead eyes.   I am not (as you can tell from my lame description) an expert at tying flies but the chartreuse version of this puppy worked very well this AM fished with a moderate stripping pace on the end of a 7 1/2 foot leader on floating line.  If somebody can tell me who really invented this fly I'd appreciate it.  Thanks... hope the fishing went well this weekend for everyone.