Yellow Sallys....(soft hackle)

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Here are a couple of yellow sally variations…



thanks Donald this is based off of the Pritt’s pattern that you sent me :smiley:

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Top one look like a lightly waxed tying silk body with a yellow fur behind the hackle, second looks like a lightly (touch) dubbed body witih fur behind the hackle. Can’t see the body of the last one that well. Hackle is Partridge?

Am I close? Great looking flies.

REE

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I think you might just catch some fish with them.
Glad to help.

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Very…body on last is the same as middle…extra wrap of hackle (fuller look)…hackle is Brahma hen dyed pale yellow.

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Very nice. Hmmm, maybe some Golden Plover hackle on that? Gonna give one or twenty a try.

REE

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Hi,
Very nice. I’m just back from a club trip to Tirau area where Pritt’s Water Cricket (also a yellow bodied fly) was working well for me. I’m sure yours would have been a hot one this weekend (yellow flies were working well for me this weekend).

  • Jeff
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thanks guys…can’t wait to try these guys out.

REE…golden plover is in another yellow sally receipe that Donald sent me…I don’t have any plover but it is on the wish list :lol:

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After reading Donald’s site and his comparison of feathers, I spent the money on a Golden Plover Skin and a pair of Woodcock wings. What beautifully colored and marked feathers on both. I’m sold.

REE

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Hi,

I agree with REE on the woodcock wings (I don’t have any golden plover yet, but would be surprised if that was less than great as well). I use Woodcock a lot, and hen pheasant wings, and cockpheasant wings has some nice coverts as well. Mallard wings is a great source for light gray hackles too, and starling skins are covered in very useful feathers for spiders. The primary feathers on all of these are great for winged flies. The hen pheasant and the woodcock primaries have a wonderful mottled look to them and making stunning wings on a March Brown.

  • Jeff
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I just looked at a pic of woodcock wings…nice colors…

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I thought I’d give everyone the Golden Plover Yellow Sally recipe.
Yellow Sally (Isoperla grammatica), a medium sized stonefly.

From Pritt’s book.
Hook: 14-16.
Thread: Primrose.
Body: Dubbed pale yellow wool.
Hackle: White cock or hen dyed pale yellow.

John Roberts version based on Pritt
Hook: 14-16.
Thread: Primrose.
Body: Dubbed pale yellow fur or synthetic dubbing.
Hackle: Golden plover (mouse-coloured with yellow tips).

Roberts says that this doubles for a Yellow May dun emerger.

I am going off now to dress a few of these, I shall take a picture and put it in the Spider section
on my web-site. As I told cholcomb13, for some reason I missed this pattern out,
Fogg does not give one in his book.

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thanks Donald the top one is the receipe I used with hen dyed pale yellow… :smiley:

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I got the opportunity it fish it for about a little over an hour…I dropped it off of another stone pattern and the fish liked it…sorry no pics. Now to tie up a dozen more. :smiley:

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A recent tip from our local fly shop owner (and professional tyer) Julie Ray has really paid off for me so far. She says, tie ALL of your favorite dry flies in a soft hackle version. It can produce fish when nothing else will work.
DANBOB