Deer hair or Elk hair, or small yellow hackle question

[Gnu Bee Flyer]

I have been making some of Danbobs yellow sallies with tan Elk hair because that was all I had. I have found some really nice yellow deer hair that looks better on the finished fly because of its thinner diameter. However I had a thought ( scarey as it may seem ) does deer hair float as well as Elk or does it sink like a rock.

Also danbob if you read this, I tried to find your post about finding a scorce for small yellow hackle , but couldn't find it. It may not even have been your thread. Anyway I couldn't find the post. did you ever get a scorce for it?

Thanks.

[Litehen55]

I have gotten some nice small yellow hackle on the Lines end coop. Straight yellow and barred yellow. Since it is not a color I use a lot, this is an inexpensive way to get saddle hackle of unusual colors. www.linesend.com

[Jayatwork]

Deer hair floats just as well as elk.

For yellow hackle you could dye some white hackle with Koolaid.

[Bamboozle]

Ditto on the Lines End referral.

You really owe it to yourself to checkout the closeouts they have on the [url=http://www.linesend.com/product/bargain_bin_2.shtml:7b052]Whiting 100 Packs[/url:7b052]. They still have Pale Yellow & Grizzly Dyed Pale Yellow at $7.00 a pack.

I don't know about Danbob's Yellow Sallies but I tie mine as basically a yellow Elk Wing Caddis and the 100 packs make tying palmered hackle a breeze. I also found that trying to find decent dyed yellow Elk hair was near impossible. Instead I found some really great stuff that was a very light cream. Combined with a yellow body and yellow hackle it looks great and the fish love it!

[Litehen55]

What is the recipe for the yellow sally if I may ask? I am heading out west this summer and would like to tie some other patterns.

[Bamboozle]

Litehen55:

There are MANY versions of a Yellow Sally that range from classic wet flies to various other critters.

The Yellow Sally I am mentioning is a small yellow stonefly that hatches in abundance here in PA. The natural is best imitated with a size 16-18 hook. I don't know if that is what you will encounter where you are going but if so here is the way I tie mine:

• *Hook - your favorite dry fly hook
  *Thread - your favorite yellow thread
  *Body - your favorite dubbing, (I like Hot Yellow Ice Dub)
  *Hackle - yellow hackle tied full Palmer
  *Wing - the palest cream Elk hair you can find

Keep in mind this is nothing but a yellow Elk Wing Caddis. I know there are fancier flies out there to imitate the natural I am talking about but this simple fly has proved super effective and super simple for me.

[Gnu Bee Flyer]

Danbob's Yellow sallie is a past fly of the week . It was on in either september or december 2006. great article and really nice pictures and instructions .
check it out in the past fly of the week files.

[ducksterman]

http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytyin ... 6fotw.html

[Gnu Bee Flyer]

thanks Duckster I was trying to figure out how to do that.

[ducksterman]

Thought so