Hi Guys:
In the last couple of years one of the major flyfishing magazines published a very effective pattern for a beadhead sowbug pattern. Well my box is now empty and I wand to tie up some more, but I can not find the pattern. Does anyone remember such a pattern and more importantly where it was published?
Thanks,
David
Add the beadhead to this one:
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytyin … 8fotw.html
Add a bead to this one too
the Too Simple Ray Charles - tied in other colors (olive) - trim the sides also and you have a simple scud pattern - and deadly effective
Modifying flies (although likely done many times before) is fun. I had no scuds for this pond, so … took an olive WB, trimmed down the tail, top and side hackle and VOILA
I am busy down in the archives, going over previous articles to add to next years CD 2007, when I came across this article by Chris Marshall (Publisher of Canadian Fly Fisher Magazine) that pertains to an old fly pattern that is considered an especially good imitation of a “Sowbug”. I hope this helps you.
[url=http://www.flyanglersonline.com/features/canada/can87.html:60ad1]Gimp Revisited[/url:60ad1]
~Parnelli
Man, oh man!
I remember buying that little paperback by Lacey Gee and Erwin Sias from Martha Marie Young at Paul Young’s fly shop near Detroit about 250 years ago! (Well,—not quite.) Tied it and fished it quite successfully. It stayed in my fly box several years but finally was demoted. This winter I’ll tie some more and use them again in the spring. Thanks Parnelli. Wonderful memories. Seems to me it cost about 75 cents! Lottsa good knowledge.
Bill