Tied up a few of these last night. Hopefully they’ll fish well. Just put together a few ideas I had about an easier-to-tie pupa pattern that would incorporate several “positive triggers” and ended up with this:
As always, PEACH (Please Evaluate and Critique Honestly).
Nice fly, what did you hackle it with? I might have gone up one more size with the hackle, but that’s just my preference. Looks like it could do double-duty for some mayfly hatches, too.
Hackle: 1 turn of black hen and then 1 turn of starling.
I wish my photography skills were such that I could get a decent shot of the body. I first make a silver tinsel underbody, then wrapped a transluscent-ly thin later of white thread, then made a split-thread dubbing loop for the scintilla…so that the inner body has a kind of glow to it as well.
gotta get the thread back to the bend somehow, and its easier than whip finishing, trimming, and restarting the thread.
Note that with a thread like uni this wont work unless you made wide, open wraps. With the UTC 70 I was using, though, the individual strands lay flat on the mylar, allowing the shine to come through, but muting it somewhat so it doesn’t look like a robot caddis.