Playing at the Vice

Hi,

I was just playing at the vice and put this together, which I was pleased with. It's a fairly basic wet-fly construction, though I don't know if it's an official "pattern". The dressing is :

hook: wet fly, size 12
thread: Uni 8/0 Olive (waxed with bee's wax)
tail: golden pheasant tippets
body: fibres from a golden pheasant body feather (yellow)
rib : gold wire
thorax : olive wool dubbed
wing: cock ringneck pheasant quill slips
hackle: snipe

I should have, but didn't, put some cement/glue down before wrapping the PP fibre body as these tend to be a bit on the fragile side and trout teeth can cut them easily. Still, they have a great colour to them so I use them for such things.

- Jeff

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...ldpheasant.jpg

Great looking fly

Jeff,

I like it a lot! With that nice even gold rib I don't think the fragile feathers will take that much of a beating. I must say that, on my screen, the body looks brown and green with a silver rib. Those colors look pretty good too. Finally, a use for those two Golden Pheasants skins I have in a drawer.

REE

Jeff,

Great looking fly! Curious though, did you use the bees wax to assist with the dubbing or does it change the hue or both?

Very nice tie. Like it a lot.

Skip

Thanks guys.

REE, the colours look that way on my screen too. The GP body feathers get brown towards the stem, so you get a brown "towards yellow" type of body. Also, the underside of the feather is darker; on the red feathers the underside is orangeish, so wrapping these for bodies gives great "tones" and subtle variation. I know the fish probably don't care, but they sure look good to the fisherman! :)

And Tyronefly, the wax does change the hue a wee bit (more so with silk thread), but it also can keep the thread from slipping on the hook when tying, so if you tie in a couple tight wraps to hold marterial in place, they often seem to hold a bit better. Also, the wax hardens a bit so it sort of works like glue to hold the fibres down. It's not really necessary, but I sometimes like to use it. Generally the wool dubs fine without it.

- Jeff

Excellent looking fly, great job!

nice pattern
very classic looking

It's a nice looking fly but I don't think we want to get involved in your morals, Ha - Ha.
I play at my vise.

Nice Fly Sir

Thanks Guys.

Ray, if I had to tie a fly in my "vice", well, it would need to be on a bigger hook! :) Hmmm, maybe I'll just stop there.

- Jeff

Jeff,

I know you gave the recipe, but it will get lost in the shuffle. How about a FOTW on this one.

REE

I for one will try to tie it. Don't know when I'll fish it though. Great looking classical type pattern.

Hi REE,

I'll try and put a FOTW together on it. I've not fished it, and so far have only tied the one as described in this thread (although I've used the fibres as body material before; in both nymphs and dries).

Lotech, if you do put one together and get a chance to fish it I would love to know how you fared with it and how it held up.

- Jeff

Nice tye Jeff. I am gonna have to tye a few up and give it a try.

Sincerely
Andy Brasko

Thanks Andy! I've really enjoyed Trout (finished reading it last week). Having some fun tying up a few patterns. I've submitted this as FOTW, though it may be awhile before it shows up. Let me know how it holds up.

- Jeff

Beautiful fly! I may have to tie some of these up and test 'em out this weekend.