"Late Beats Never" Joe Hyde Feature, Pattern Report

[Gandolf]

Hi All,

Joe Hyde's feature article included a small streamer that Joe did quite well with on keeper size bluegill.

In a post down the page a bit, the question came up as to what the pattern was. Joe sent the fly to me, and I looked it over carefully so as to be able to give a report. I decided to start a new post rather than add to the bottom of the first report.

The pattern is as follows:

Hook: Mustad 9672, #12
Thread: 6/0 Unithread Olive
Bead: 5/64" gold
Tail: Charcoal Rabbit
Body: Peacock

When I tie a peacock body fly, I use a twisted rope, if you will, of peacock. This is done by trimming off about 3/4 inch off the tips of 3 to 6 strands of peacock, tying them onto the hook shank, and then using the thread to form a twisted dubbing rope of the peacock. The twisting greatly toughens up the peacock body, which without the thread and twist can be cut by toothy fish.

Unithread olive has a more greenish color than does Danville's olive. The Danville's has more brownish in it's olive and is not nearly as greenish as is the Unithread.

Joe sent the streamer to me, and it came in on perhaps Monday. I looked at it under the room lights, but couldn't tell if the peacock was dyed or not. You don't realize how important natural sunlight is until you try to identify a color with poorer light, and I don't see colors superbly anyway. During work days I don't get home until about dark. So today I took it outside, and the materials were obvious.

Joe, I will be sending the fly back, but will be a few days as I am really tied up for a week or two by my moonlighting job. I teach college organic chemistry at the local JuCo, finals are next week, and I have reports and government required paperwork to finish up.

Regards,

Gandolf

[jimsnarocks]

So the tail was rabbit. That's cool. I was hoping someone would come up with it. Thanks for the recipe Gandolf. Best regards, Jim

[Joe Hyde]

Hey Gandolf,


Does your choice of materials mean the pattern can technically be called a Hare's TAIL Nymph?


Joe

[Gandolf]

Hi Joe,

Got a chuckle from your reply. Could be, maybe, I don't know?

Fish seem to have an afinity for hare's mask dubbing, which the gold ribbed hare's ear flash back is tied with. John Gierich writes a lot about hare's ear dubbing, he loves it too. A lot of guys have a lot of respect for peacock, so hare and herl is a great combination. The tail on this fly is rabbit body, not mask, but the rabbit hair has great movement.

Peter Frailey ties this bugger with hackle and calls it the Hare and Herl Bugger. His version has hackle. I would be tempted to call it the Hare and Herl Bugger No Hackle.

A lot of us read your features every time they are on, and Rick's also. So we are all familiar with you fondness for the #10 gold ribbed hares ear flashback. For that reason, if you want to call it a hare's tail nymph we will be fairly understanding. (It really isn't a nymph though.)

Hope things are going well for you and you are getting over the bad cold you have been fighting.

Regards,

Gandolf