Rat Pack

[nfrechette]

[BadBug]

Nice work. I always liked the RAT series of flys.

Dennis

[James Smith]

Beautiful work, as always.

Jim

[lastchance]

Very cool.

[ggmiller]

Nice tie and great variations! What is the wing material w/ white tips? Those flies look like they will catch fish! Have you had good success with them?

[nfrechette]

gray squirrel tail

i tie them but i dont fish them

i do believe other fisherman have success with them

[Uncle Jesse]

What qualifies a streamer as a member of the "Rat Series", the grizzly hackle and squirrel tail wing or is there something else I missed.

[jcampbell]

Good question Jesse. I only see three things that are the same. Red head, hackle and squirrel tail wing. Don't see anything that looks like a Rat

[nfrechette]

umm rat has nothing to do with a rat but everything to do with Roy Angus Thompson, and his initials R A T are the inspiration for the pattern

http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/atlantic/hairwing/hwrustyrat.php

theres a lot of additional history on the google machine

[smij]

Another great post!