Wow, Donald! Your work always amazes me!
Wow, Donald! Your work always amazes me!
Trouts don't live in ugly places.
A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.
Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.
About three, if I remember correctly Scott.
Thank you Betty, I'm glad you like it.
That IS a really good-looking fly!
David Merical
St. Louis, MO
What the Swamp Witch said...Originally Posted by Betty Hiner
The Toad
Hi Donald,
Nicely done!
Do they fish it in smaller sizes for trout?
Thanks and regards,
Gandolf
Hi Gandolf,
They were originally used as trout flies in lough/loch style fishing on a cast of two/three or more flies, usually in #12-10 standard wet fly hooks. The hook size is not carved in stone and larger flies dressed on low water salmon hooks are used for salmon/sea trout, fished singly.
They are still mostly fished #12-10 for trout, loch style.
Donald,
We'll have to revive this thread in December as a Christmas fly pattern.
Thanks,
Ed
Great tie Donald! For those interested in a step by step I put this in as a FOTW (Oct 12, 2009), but Donald's is a much nicer example than mine.
- Jeff
Am fear a chailleas a chanain caillidh e a shaoghal. -
He who loses his language loses his world.
Hi Jeff,
I missed your FOTW in 2009, my eyes were at their worst then and I had problems useing my laptop. I had a cataract op after this in 2010 and never caught up on anything I had missed.
This picture is of a fly I tied for a Winter Steel-head Swap in Dec 2004. I dug it out of the archives when I put together a posting on another BB, recently. I dressed about 15 or 16 of these for the swap. No problems with my eyes then. Never mind, they are good enough at the moment.
Some of the important points about this version are the wrapping of one peacock herl up the body and then counter-wrapping with another down the body. This seems to prevent the rib, which was changed to flat floss strands, twisted to make a thinner rib, from burying its self in the herl body. I am glad I kept that picture, it came out very nicely.
ps Here is the swap page.
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/s...ead-Swap/page4
Last edited by Donald Nicolson; 11-03-2012 at 09:21 AM. Reason: mis-type
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