I’ve been thinking about a fly like this for some time. Got around to the experiment a couple days ago, and have not yet had the opportunity to fish it. But I believe it will do well tomorrow on my home water Northern Idaho freestone creek. So what is it - a furled extended body mahogany dun emerger with the SHUCK incorporated in and extending from the furled extended body, tied on a 2x short size 16 dry fly hook, with a loop wing using the standing ends of the antron used for the FEB, and a dry fly hackle parachute tied to the posted loop wing, with the parachute finished in the 9DH style ( after wrapping the hackle on the loop wing post wrap it forward a few turns in front of the post to behind the hook eye and tie off ). The method of incorporating the SHUCK in the furled extended body is demonstrated in the first five photos of my presentation of JARS as the 12-31-12 FOTW in the FAOL archives. The FEB itself and the loop wing consist of one strand of antron and the SHUCK consists of about a half strand of an appropriate color antron. Stay tuned … or not. Tomorrow will prove that …
… the fly produced decent results. The temps were way down from a few days ago, with snow on the mountains not much above where I was fishing, and there was very little activity - the rises were few and far between, very sporadic and widely spread. The fishies had moved from one section of the run that was super hot a few days ago and were pretty much podded up and hunkered down in the deeper, slower section a bit downstream. But, when all was said and done, the new fly accounted for about fifteen fishies over an hour an a half, with one 17" and a couple in the 15-16" range. One change in tying the fly went from using both of the standing ends of the antron forming the FEB to only one strand to form the loop wing. The doubled up strand produced a wing that was a bit “much” for my liking. Also, the smaller hook, roughly equivalent to a size 20, turned out to be very effective at keeping fishies on and, surprisingly, easier to remove than the size 14 hooks used for a similar antron and hackle fly tied in the more traditional way ( without an FEB ). While the FEB with the incorporated SHUCK allows for more action, the downside is that the fly is probably less durable than the similar more “traditional” fly. In any event, the new fly proved once again that …