Adolphs Meat Tenderizer SBS

Adopted the color scheme from Mr. Lort’s fly.

hook - Maruto 2312 #6
thread - UTC 70 burnt orange
tail - guinea dyed orange (1Tbs Rit Sunshine orange, 1 cup water)
abdomen - medium tinsel red holographic
rib - small oval tinsel silver
thorax - Ice Dub black
hackle - hen dyed orange (see above)
collar - pheasant rump dyed orange (2Tbs Rit Sunshine Orange, 1 cup water)

Part 1

mash barb, start thread at 50% mark; wrap to bend

measure (gap width past bend) some guinea fibers; tie in/trim

tie in tinsel at 50% mark, wrap to tail and back; tie off/trim

tie in oval tinsel

dub thread/dub thorax; leave an eye width up front for the hackles

Part 2

counterwrap rib; tie off/trim, rough it up a bit

tie in (folded) hackle by tip; wrap, tie off/trim

repeat with pheasant rump

tie off/trim, whip finish, SHHAN

Regards,
Scott

Just gotta tie up some of those for our surfperch and now is the time. THANKS Scott…and the rest of you’s guys for keeping this so interesting.
…lee s.

Beautiful dyeing job on the pheasant. I especially like how the contrasts developed in the collar hackle. The half-pounders should really like this fly in Autumn.

That’d be a great October fly on the Madison, maybe tied a size or two smaller to better “match” the October Caddis. (Not really enough October Caddis to make for good fishing around here in general, though the browns seem to like the pupae.)