I’ll send this fly and five more assorted flies to the first person who can correctly identify all of the materials in the fly. The hook is a size 16 hook and hackle dry fly hook.
#16 dry fly hook
Thread: Black
Tail:Golden Pheasant tippet
Body: Peacock Herls and Red Floss
Wing: White something…can’t tell for sure…the ends aren’t tapered, so it appears to be either clipped hair or a synthetic of some sort. Could be deer hair, or calf tail or calf body, or bleached elk, or polar bear, or zelon/antron/polyproplylene fibers
Hackle: Brown dry fly hackle
Need a little more specific than white something.
Looks like bucktail with clipped tips.
Wing:either Bucktail or Calves tail
Tail: Golden Pheasant Tippets
Body: Peacock Herl or Swords and red floss
Ginger Hackle
black thread
No one has got it right so far.
White stuff be calf body hair …?
The wing looks like finely shredded paper but it is probably some type of foam or plastic string. The diameter is fairly large.
2.5 to 3.0 thousands of an inch if that helps.
Could the wing be glow-in-the-dark fibers of some sort?
Well if we, tried and true fly tying fanatics that we are, cannot accurately identify the exact material of that wing, what chance do the trout have, LOL?
Allan
Wing looks like white polypropylene, like strands from a braided white rope. Could also be nylon monofilament, but don’t see too much white mono around. There is a strand or two in there that aren’t white though. One is brown, like Maxima, and another is fairly clear.
The rest we know: Golden pheasant, peacock herl, red floss, brown hackle, black thread, and the hook.
Think out of the box guys. It didn’t come from a fly shop.
My Labrador retriever has hair that looks like that too!
Hm…I have a white Ferret that has nice translucent, hollow-looking fibers. Could be similar to the wing shown, if the ends are clipped. Or…this could be an animal that was previously sheared, so the ends wouldn’t be naturally tapered. Llama? Alpaca?
Too thick for sheep, methinks, or cat. Also seems too thick for any canine or rabbit. Seal? Maybe. Polar Bear is possible. Goat? Antelope? Beard from the Amish? :rolleyes:
If it is a synthetic…looks like dental floss but not thick enough for that. I’m coming up empty on synthetic ideas that we haven’t covered already. UNCLE UNCLE! :lol:
My first thought was wire insulation, it’s too straight to be stripped from a rope or anything formerly braided. Kerry is a chip head and works with computers, maybe he got a roll of wire that was only insulation with no wire inside. Just a WAG, nothing scientific about it.
No I’m not Amish but that’s close enough, Dave. Send me your address to get your rare fly from my favorite beard and a few others.
woohooo!!! 