Pheasant Tail Wet

[hazmat]

Anyone have a link to a pattern handy? I've been hunting one down but can't find anything that gives me a pattern beyond the nymph. Any help? Thanks in advance!!!

Matt

[JeffHamm]

Hi Hazmat,

I played with variations on the Pheasant tailed nymph, setting up a series that were the "life cycle of the pheasant tail".

It starts with the PTN, tied as follows:
tail: 3 pheasant tail fibres (choose ones long enough to wrap the abdomen, and be the wing case)
body: the ends of the tail fibres wrapped up the shank; do not trim yet, but have points sticking up to form wing case)
rib: fine copper wire (wrapped opposite direction to abdomen)
Thorax: pheasant tail fibres wrapped in a ball (covering lead or copper wraps if weighted; alternative is peacock hurl)
Wingcase: pull the remaining fibres that formed the abdomen down over the thorax, and you can pull them underneath to form leggs as well.
Head: black tying thread.

(the above, tied on a small grub hook of size 16, or 18, makes a really nice midge pattern as well)

For the whole "series", you tie the tail, abdomen, and rib the same way every time.

For the "emerger" stage, do not add weight, tie on curved lightwire hook and leave out the leggs. Add a brown partridge feather as a soft hackle in front of the thorax.

For the "adult on the surface", omit the thorax, wingcase, and leggs, and tie in up-wings using slips from turkey tail feathers and a dry fly collar hackle of furnace.

For the "winged wet version", slope the turkey wings back, and put a false hackle (throat or beard) of brown hen fibres.

Anyway, I've caught fish on all of these patterns at one time or another. The winged wet version has been the "fly of the day" on occasion as well.

- Jeff

[Normand]

GOOGLE found a bunch of patterns!!!

http://www.google.com/search?q=Pheasant ... =firefox-a

[Donald Nicolson]

Here is a spider version
Pheasant Tail Spider & variations
Hook 16, 14 or 12.
Tying Thread :- Brown or orange (Pearsall?s No. 17 or 6A).
Hackle :- Blue dun, ginger, coch-y-bondhu, honey dun, furnace or dark brown.
Game bird hackles such as woodcock may also be used.
Body :- Three pheasant tail herls twisted together and wound as a rope.
Rib :- Fine gold wire.

http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/_w ... 3cf_1b.jpg

And here is a West Country version
Pheasant Tail

Hook: 0,1. or 14.

Silk:

Body: Cock (male) pheasant tail fibres, ribbed gold wire.

Hackle & Whisks: Golden dun cock (male chicken) or (c) any hackle.

http://www.dtnicolson.dial.pipex.com/_w ... d24_1b.jpg

You could do a version of the West Country using a softhackle,
you would then have a flymph.
I have just realised that is one I don't have on the site.

[hazmat]

GOOGLE found a bunch of patterns!!!

http://www.google.com/search?q=Pheasant ... =firefox-a

Yeah, I was having some serious network issues yesterday and my Google searches were timing out.

Thanks for the patterns!!! I found one(finally!!) myself but the rest of these will come in handy as well. Thanks, all!!!