Used the pearl Flashabou because I was out of silver (on order). Did you tie an underwing? I had someone on another forum suggest bucktail instead of the Angel Hair I used.
No underwing, but I kept the wing relatively short. This prevented most fouling.
The other salmon fly I wouldn’t be without was a bunny leech. 1/0-4 silver steelhead iron, silver dumbbell eyes, and either fl. cerise bunny strip with white hackle or fl. cerise back half and purple front half and no hackle. Dead-drift or swing. Chums loved it and it was always a good question whether they’d be fresh and silvery or gnarly and kinda terrifying…
You know, seeing you post these has got me wondering about using grizzly or dyed-grizzly hackle and so-called “grizzly” flashabou on these, as trout streamers. Hmmm…
Nice shot. Curious if the tides played a role in the action when you were there? I have fished the same beach later in the season, and they were definitely a factor then, but the pinks had already run through by then, so I was wondering if it is a key variable or if it was just a matter of what was running at the time.
Scott ,
I was just wandering How many Hackle feathers are you using in one pic looks like you tied in one then in the next pic it looks like your wrapping 2 at the same time ???
Steve-stabgnid
The 3 evenings we fished there it was in various stages of an incoming tide. Once, just after ebb, the fish were quietly finning around right near the shore and I found lightly-weighted flies (the Kreelex with bead-chain eyes) were very effective. As the tide began to rise and the current picked up, I was able to fish the heavier-weighted Flash Fly (fewer hangups on the bottom and less weeds on the fly) as effectively. To tell the truth, with the pinks, fly pattern didn’t really matter as long as it had some flash and you got it in front of the fish’s face; my partners did just as well using completely different flies.
Steve,
Good catch. I used photos from 2 flies to put this SBS together and on one of them I had to double up because the hackle (an older Chinese cape) was a bit sparse. Good schlappen is preferable if you have it.
