Parachute Patriot

Bill just asked for this pattern and I sent it to him via PM, but I thought that I might post it for everybody else as well.


Parachute Patriot

Hook: standard or barbless dry fly. Commonly tyed in sizes 12 - 18 for trout.
Thread: red (I prefer silk because it is translucent in the water and easy to tie with)
Post: white Hi-Viz
Tail: brown hackle fibers
Body: several alternating bands of thread and smolt blue (#40?) Krystal Flash
Hackle: brown, tyed parachute style

The Parachute Patriot is a bright-colored fly. Hence it follows the rule, bright day, bright fly. Obviously it is an attractor pattern. It seems to have all but replaced the Royal Coachman as the bright, attractor of choice on the Au Sable.

It is an easy enough fly to tie. I also tie it in size 10 for bluegill so as to make it a bit harder for them to swallow the whole thing. Good luck with it! Once you start using Krystal Flash as a body material, it is as slippery as slope as snowshoe hare's foot for tying. Variations just beg for a shot at the vise. :shock:

I think that variations, such using grizzly hackle, bear experimentaion. Hmmmm... Now I can't help but wonder how an orange thread and root beer Krystal Flash body with orange-dyed grizzly or ginger hackle would work for a cinnamon sedge. It's a terrible vice, fly-tying... ;)


regards,
Ed

What, no picture?

Jack sent me the following picture:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/IMGP0577.jpg

Thanks, Jack.

Joe

EdD,

Nice fly. I think your really on to something with the root beer and orange. Sounds too good not to try.

REE

Really nice fly! I will have to tie some up for the assorted, tiny trout waters we have here...and the gills will love it for sure!

nen-bran

P.S. Smolt Blue Krystal Flash is #20 i think.

Hey Gang, some folks have asked about the parachute patriot. I am bumping the thread for their benefit.

BTW, I have used a pale green Krystal Flash to good effect for an abdomen on other parachute flies. The one that I used last Friday was one such fly.

Ed

Thanks Ed!! Got my next tying project lined up now!!

Somebody said inquiring minds want to know, about the Patriot Parachute or the Parachute Patriot.

For those who have trouble with the slippery krystal flash wanting to slide off the back of the hook the trick is to tie in one extra strand which is not included when wrapping the body forward. After the blue segment is wound on the hook bring the extra strand over the top. this makes the fly much more durable.