Couple mods to Scott Sanchez Convertible - added foam for floatation (landau roof?) and, for smaller (#12-14) swapped Congo Hair for the calftail Trude/Wulff wing (less bulk at tie in; still like calftail for #10 and larger). Lot of the steps are similar to the Neversink Trude; front end’s a bit different. Great little fly for pocket water; the Trude/Wulff combo wing is very visible.
hook - Dai Riki 320 (#12)
thread - Uni 6/0 camel
tail - moose body
body - peacock herl
overbody - 2mm foam strip brown
wing - Congo Hair white
hackle - saddle brown/grizzly
legs - round rubber brown (med)
attach thread to hook at about the 60% mark
attach a clump of moose body, little bit longer than hook gape
and trim ends
trim a strip of 2mm foam (hook gap width) to a point
Congo Hair is polypropylene, like EP Fibers I think, and supposedly hydrophobic. I’ve used it on a lot of saltwater flies and it seems to do a pretty good job shedding water after a couple false casts. With these flies, I still like to add a bit floatant to give it a boost; certainly doesn’t hurt. I use the stuff for all my parachute posts, and wings on other flies, as well:
The original Convertible by Scott Sanchez was constructed to be deconstructed over the course of the day during the “One Fly Contest” on the Snake River as the need for different flies evolved from early morning to late evening. That “dawg” in many of its finished and deconstructed forms helped win that “One Fly”, and provided at least an assist along Scott’s way to winning the Buzz Buszek award.
Follow the link for the FAOL FOTW that Scott did a number of years ago for more information.
P.S. Scott - that is a nice bunch of flies you’ve posted on this thread. A number of them look quite familiar - from seeing them in one of my flies boxes for some period of time. Your presentations have risen to a whole new level since you retired. Good for you.
