When I was shopping for thread a seamstress told me the names for the clockwise twist and the counter clockwise twist. However, I failed to write them down and have forgotten the names. Do you know them?
When Herter's marketed silk tying thread their spool said "madex (or maydex) twist, thightens when wet". What was that all about???
Awesome Article, Great photography! Well done!! Made me want to pick up the book and read it again!!
As a side note the name for this fly is derived from family name (taxanomically speaking) for Pheasants. It's the best I could come up with, the wing is comprised of 4 different species of pheasant.
[quote:16ff8ac399="J. R. Caddick"]It looks like it would be a good fly for brookies over here on my side of the pond.[/quote:16ff8ac399]
Jamie,
It's pretty fishy in the water, and was used this weekend because the first fish I caught (and took and hence gutted) contained lots of little sand eels. See attached picture.
The fly is actually a pretty good imitation of these small fish, and since the water was relatively choppy, I thought that a visible fly couldn't hurt.
Martin
Ok, here it is:
I didn't have Siberian Squirrel so I used the only squirrel I had, Red Fox Squirrel Tail. The white tips of the red fox shouldn't detract from the pattern I don't think. We use it for a lot of streamer patterns here.
Here's the original pattern:
Hook Bronze trout hook size 6 - 10
Tag Round gold tinsel (veniard nr.20)
Tail Tippets
Body Dark claret sealfur
Wing A few strands bucktail, a few strands Lureflash Twinkle and dark brown siberian squirrel
Hackle Black hen
Head Black
Well, I don't have any of that, so I'll have to sub natural guinea fowl instead I guess. Should work fine....... :)
Grant, the original Erling Olsen pattern called for black hackle. I used Whiting Brahma Hen - I like the speckled look.
Chris
Thanks all for the kind words.
Bob, there are 4 saddle hackles.
Hail John of Wales! You get around my friend... :-) Your site is coming along nicely, even though I don't quite get ALL the terminology.... Straddle Bugs, eh? ;-)
I think I'm going to have to try the bottom variation for Bull Trout here in BC. Are you using squirrel for the throat as well?
Beautiful fly. Just perfect. How many saddle hackles are in the wing?
Bob Abrams
McLean, Virginia
That is one very nice looking streamer. I really like the way you tapered the body and the head is perfect in my opinion... whatever that is worth.
Hi Martin,
That is one nice looking fly, anything with seals fur in it is pretty well a sure thing. It looks like it would be a good fly for brookies over here on my side of the pond.
[color=green:fa49ada707][size=18:fa49ada707]long life to GFF[/size:fa49ada707][/color:fa49ada707]
Thanks. It is actually one of Norewgian Erling Olsen's patterns.
Chris
[quote:5d98464a01="kasper the dane"]Sorry - I was not able to post my photo!
Maybe later...[/quote:5d98464a01]
Was the problem on your side or our's?
Martin
The fly was designed for sea trout and actually caught its first two trout this weekend. It is in essence a Juletræ (Christmas Tree) with a wing made from a zonker strip from seal. Looks great in the water.
And yes, the box is a Scierra box, which indeed is very similar to the C&F Design ones. Nice boxes, actually.
Martin
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