Orange

[JeffHamm]

Hi,

Finally found the orange cosseboom!



- Jeff

[Donald Nicolson]

Jeff,
A very nice fly, does it catch you big fish on the lakes?

[JeffHamm]

Hi Donald,

I've not tried the orange one yet. However, I've caught a few niced size (2-3lbs) fish on standard cossebooms (green body, silver rib, yellow hackle, grey squirrel tail wing, red head) and on one I call a "night cosseboom", which has Wine body (uni-floss), gold rib, fox squirrel tail wing, and the hackle is a red hackle with a black hackle in front.

Here are some links to images. The first is a regular version, the 2nd is "night version", and the 3rd is a yellow cosseboom that has also produced well. These are all tied on size 10 2x shank length hooks.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g142/ ... seboom.jpg

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g142/ ... seboom.jpg

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g142/ ... seboom.jpg

- Jeff

[flyandtie]

i like this thread!

[Donald Nicolson]

Hi Jeff,
I have heard of the Cosseboom before but with so many flies, or should I say 'lures', I never got round to tying or
fishing one. What squirrel hair are you using, some appear to be grey and others fox squirrel. I don't suppose it really
matters, I have both, but I do rather like the fox squirrel. I am in the mood just now to tie some lures.
It is a nice straight forward dressing and I should be able to knock off quite a few of the variations.

Whoops!! I just read your post properly, your using both.
You've got me interested, a few weeks ago I bought several reels of floss in diferent colours, now is my chance
to practise 'flossing'.

[JeffHamm]

Hi Donald,

The Cosseboom is a hairwing Atlantic Salmon fly, with the green body/silver rib/yellow hackle/red head/grey squirrel tail being the standard dressing. The red head is traditional for them, the fellow who came up with the pattern apparently felt the red head fished better. The story is that he bet a friend that the red head would outfish the black and on that day he caught 5 and his friend 1.

I've tied them smaller for trout, on size 10 2x shanks. The yellow version I put together based upon the colour pattern of the New Zealand Matuku fly "Parson's Glory".

- Jeff

[EdD]

Well, I've resisted as long as I can. I'm sorry, y'all, but I am an alumnus of the University of Tennessee.

Go Big Orange!

There, I feel better now. Thanks for your patience.

Ed

[Donald Nicolson]

Hi Ed,
Well, I am glad you got that off your chest.
I shall have to come up with a fly for you called 'The Big Orange'.

In the near future, I'll be tying up a selection of Orange flies as well as some others using that floss I acquired.

[backwoods]

would like orange bugger wish i ahd one here id cram it in box.
my fly box is to small.

[JeffHamm]

Hi,

Cosseboom's, for Atlantic Salmon, are very popular in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Tied for salmon, the hackle collar is usually quite short lengthed fibres, and often quite full. In the photos of the ones I've tied up for trout, the collars are much longer, mostly because I don't have dyed hackles that would fit the size 10 hooks to the same proportion. Also, the tail is typically a piece of floss, but I tend to use a pinch of the fluff from the base of hackle feathers.

Here's a link to the Cosseboom as one of the Fly of the Week (here on FAOL: which seems to be the source of the story I read on the red head!) The fly was invented by John Cosseboom in 1922.

http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytyin ... 9fotw.html

Another Atlantic Salmon fly that I've tied in smaller sizes for trout, and that uses orange floss, and grey squirrel tail is the Rusty Rat:



The tail is peacock sword, and the body is split half (rear orange floss, front is peacock hurl), with a grizzle hackle for the collar and grey squirrel tail for the wing. Again, tied with red thread for the head. A piece of orange floss should be tied in as an underwing, but I had forgotton to include that in this version.

- Jeff