Green Drake rubberbutt

[pittendrigh]

I can't seem to get motivated enough to try copying the Bing Lempke extended body Green Drake DVD again just yet. I will at some point. It's snowing hard today and too nasty to fish (at least now with high brown runoff rivers to boot). So I'm tying a few flies. Rubberbutt is a bit awkward for a fly-type name. Maybe I should call these rubber duns, or maybe just rubbers.

Here's an extended body Green Drake I made 5 minutes ago.

hook: #20 DaiRiki 135 (the fly itself is bigger than a normal #20)
body: olive Chewy Skin, tied on a #12 beading needle
thread: hot chartreuse 8/0 ... 14/0 would be better, but I don't have it in hot green
wing: cdc
hackle: Zelon tuft, mounted below the shank
tails: a few grizzly hackle strands.......what ever is close at hand




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