Pheasant Tail

[moonlitflies]

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Does use materials other than pheasant tail for this nymph?

Brandon

[gordo7]

Why ? Tradition and proven performance etc.

[moonlitflies]

Because sometimes its fun to play with new materials, and variations of patterns. For me I love trying to make my own twists on patterns. I've tied Renegade using different colors of Ostrich Herl, and been extremely ptoductive. With this I'm excited to see how it fish's using different material than the classic Pheasant Tail. Experimenting is the fun of it. Just curious what other mayerials might be used for this by other people.

Brandon

[ScottP]

Nothing wrong with trying something different (although if you sub out the pheasant then is it really a Pheasant Tail any more?).

Howard Cole's LOF Pheasant Tail




Hot Wire Tarcher Pheasant Tail




Flashback PT Softhackle (used ostrich for the hackle)




Here's some I tied with hen pheasant tail

basic




flashback




beadhead




beadhead full flashback




Soft Hackle (split thread)





Charlie Craven's Pheasant Tail Alternative is a cool looking fly and doesn't use any at all

http://www.charliesflyboxinc.com/fly...fm?parentID=50

Regards,
Scott

[moonlitflies]

Scott that's true that it's technically no longer a Pheasant Tail, but it's still tief to imitate the same. In the picture above I've used a different type of thread. This picture is of a Copper metallic thread. I haven't tried them yet, but I'm excited to see how they do. Lots of PMD's on this water.
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Cheers
Brandon

[melk]

Nice collection of flies up there. Some neat new ideas.
Mike

[Allan]

There comes a point when a particular pattern is altered sufficiently that the name of the original can/should not be used to identify it. Example, you're fishing with a friend who is about 100+feet away and he's hammering them. All you can muster is a 6 inch dink. You yell out, "What are you using"? He yells back, "A 14 BWO". You search your vest and find the box with BWOs and put one on. In the next 1/2 hour you see him catch 4 more nice trout and you're still doing nothing. Eventually you guys come together and you look at the flies (2 got chewed to nothing) he was using. The pattern was a size 16. It had a pheasant tail tail and body, dun hen hackle tip wings, and mixed brown and grizzly hackle. You say, "That's not a BWO" and he says, "Yes it is. See, it has a BWO wing".

Allan

[sagefisher]

Byron,

I have tied some that way, using only the pheasant tail and copper wire. I do prefer to use very fine copper wire when I tie them. But, most of the time I use thread.

Larry ---sagefisher---

[Steven]

The pheasant tail as we know it, using peacock herl for the thorax, is sometimes designated as the American Pheasant Tail Nymph to distinguish it from Sawyer's PTN.

[Byron haugh]

Steven,
Sorta my point. Discussion above about calling a variation of a fly by the original name (when it's different) and yet, the example of the original PT Nymph wasn't explained............