First: I needed some blue hackle tips for the “Borcher’s Special” To use on the AuSable River (MI). Well, it didn’t work too well. Why? I forgot to wash the hackle’s first. Failed to follow the instructions right here!!
Second: I’m tying some stone fly’s (Remember my post on tying in eye’s? Well you all helped with that.). I was grousing about how long it takes for the head cement to try when I finish the fly. DUH!! Tie in the eye’s build the head add head cement and THEN finish the rest!
Us Ol’Dog’s can learn ya know!!??
Oh Yeah! Stonefly’s have dark eye’s. I painted mine gold!! Now I’ll probably learn they won’t catch anything!!
I feel more like I do now than I did when I got here!
I learned a few new things today, learned of a Mayfly pattern named the Borcher Special…
I learned that this pattern was created by Anne Schweigert of Roscommon, Michigan. Au Sable guide Ernie Borcher later modified the pattern by adding grizzly hackle to the existing brown. It is a versatile early season fly, imitating E. subvaria, E. invaria, and Leptophlebia cupida (Borcher?s Drake). Tyer: Rusty Gates…
I learned the recipe for the Borcher Special
Hook: Mustad 94845, size 10-18
Thread: Black, 6/0
Tail: mahogany ringneck pheasant tail fibers
Body: Mottled turkey wing quill fibers
Wings: Blue dun hen hackle tips
Collar: Brown & Grizzly hackle, mixed
