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Read with interest the posts to Frank's thread. A couple of thoughts for
what they are worth. First, do NOT attempt to imitate spinners and duns with the same patterns. The duns are noticably darker in body color, the spinners are nearly dead white. Second, avoid both long shank hooks and stiff extended bodies on the spinners(duns seem less of a problem, as they a gulped rather that sucked in like the spinners). The feather type extended pattern works well, and if I might suggest a Dick Talleur idea, so does a simple poly yarn extension. The pattern: Hook--12 standard dry fly Thread--White 6/0 Body--piece of white poly yarn, about 2 inches long, singed to melt at either end. Lash this to the body over hook point, extending to rear. Thorax--black fur, your choice. I use squirrel or rabbit. Wing--heavily tied longish grizzley, 2 or three feathers wound hackle-wise and clipped top and bottom. There you have it.....easy to tie, painless to lose. The fish eat them up like the real thing and they stay in their mouths real well. Go to it guys... one more I don't have to make batches of giveaways for you all! Tom |
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![]() "Thomas Littleton" wrote Hook--12 standard dry fly Thread--White 6/0 Body--piece of white poly yarn, about 2 inches long, singed to melt at either end. Lash this to the body over hook point, extending to rear. Do you have trouble with that long of piece of poly fouling under the hook bend? I've tried similar ideas and did, is why I ask. Borger's Damsel dry might be a good starting point? off the top of my head hook body ...braided butt material ( this is sold in quanity as shooting line for shooting heads ) with a bump of thread under it to keep it from fouling in the hook bend body would be ( I've never seen a coffin fly ) black? poly yarn tied in as parachute post wing ... parachute hackle of right color and size now separate the hackle at the front of the hook and pull the post down and tie it off to complete the fly ... same idea, different colors might make a good EGD spinner ? btw what is the scientific name on this fly? We have three pretty different bugs in the Jellystone area that all go by the name Green Drake |
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![]() "Larry L" wrote in message ... "Thomas Littleton" wrote Hook--12 standard dry fly Thread--White 6/0 Body--piece of white poly yarn, about 2 inches long, singed to melt at either end. Lash this to the body over hook point, extending to rear. Do you have trouble with that long of piece of poly fouling under the hook bend? I've tried similar ideas and did, is why I ask. Borger's Damsel dry might be a good starting point? off the top of my head hook body ...braided butt material ( this is sold in quanity as shooting line for shooting heads ) with a bump of thread under it to keep it from fouling in the hook bend body would be ( I've never seen a coffin fly ) black? poly yarn tied in as parachute post wing ... parachute hackle of right color and size now separate the hackle at the front of the hook and pull the post down and tie it off to complete the fly ... same idea, different colors might make a good EGD spinner ? btw what is the scientific name on this fly? We have three pretty different bugs in the Jellystone area that all go by the name Green Drake No real problem with fouling of the poly, but I use a coarse poly yarn. The taxinomical name of the bug at Penns is Ephemera Guttlatta or something like that. Very close in classification to the European E. Danica. Tom |
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Thomas Littleton wrote:
Read with interest the posts to Frank's thread. A couple of thoughts for what they are worth dot dot dot As I should have posted to my message to Frank: Whatever Tom says is what I'll do. I like your simple poly body suggestion. Thanks. I just hope I can stay on the water long enough to try it. (Might keep this one a secret from Jimmy so I can pull a "Why don't you try one of these!") -- Stan Gula http://gula.org/roffswaps |
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The pattern:
Hook--12 standard dry fly Thread--White 6/0 Body--piece of white poly yarn, about 2 inches long, singed to melt at either end. Lash this to the body over hook point, extending to rear. Thorax--black fur, your choice. I use squirrel or rabbit. Wing--heavily tied longish grizzley, 2 or three feathers wound hackle-wise and clipped top and bottom. There you have it.....easy to tie, painless to lose. The fish eat them up like the real thing and they stay in their mouths real well. Go to it guys... one more I don't have to make batches of giveaways for you all! Tom I've noticed that there is no tail on this, and that is something I was trying to include. Ideas or comments? -- Frank Reid Euthenize to respond |
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"Frank Reid" wrote in
: The pattern: Hook--12 standard dry fly Thread--White 6/0 Body--piece of white poly yarn, about 2 inches long, singed to melt at either end. Lash this to the body over hook point, extending to rear. Thorax--black fur, your choice. I use squirrel or rabbit. Wing--heavily tied longish grizzley, 2 or three feathers wound hackle-wise and clipped top and bottom. There you have it.....easy to tie, painless to lose. The fish eat them up like the real thing and they stay in their mouths real well. Go to it guys... one more I don't have to make batches of giveaways for you all! Tom I've noticed that there is no tail on this, and that is something I was trying to include. Ideas or comments? I've posted a photo of the Penns Creek natural at http://scottseidman.home.mindspring.com/ The tails go all the way to my thumb Scott |
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![]() "Frank Reid" wrote I've noticed that there is no tail on this, and that is something I was trying to include. Ideas or comments? -- Frank, I know zero about this bug. I'm just trying to be social and take an interest in the PennClave. Thinking about "white, glassy, extended abdomens" last night I remembered a section on extended bodies in Shane Stalcup's ( sp?) book on mayflies bottom to top..... if my old memory serves you posted that you got the book The first one he shows looks great to my not too good at fly tying eye ... and I think you could build it soft enough and mount it to hinge a little to minimize hooking problems The fish might not give a **** but you'd have the coolest looking fly box in camp G I tend to just whip out the minimum effort flies that fool the fish, myself, and most of mine could be tied a lot neater with a little more effort, but work well enough. But then I'm usually embarassed to show or share them to/with anyone but the trout Oh, I think tails would look great .... to MY eye, most spinners on the water have a 'shape' that certainly includes the tail ..... I tend to make more effort to tie neat ones on spinner patterns than on duns, myself ( again not for this exact bug, in general ) |
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Frank,
I know zero about this bug. I'm just trying to be social and take an interest in the PennClave. Thinking about "white, glassy, extended abdomens" last night I remembered a section on extended bodies in Shane Stalcup's ( sp?) book on mayflies bottom to top..... if my old memory serves you posted that you got the book The first one he shows looks great to my not too good at fly tying eye ... and I think you could build it soft enough and mount it to hinge a little to minimize hooking problems Absolutely perfect. Will try it right now. -- Frank Reid Reverse email to reply |
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I know zero about this bug. I'm just trying to be social and take an
interest in the PennClave. Thinking about "white, glassy, extended abdomens" last night I remembered a section on extended bodies in Shane Stalcup's ( sp?) book on mayflies bottom to top..... if my old memory serves you posted that you got the book The first one he shows looks great to my not too good at fly tying eye ... and I think you could build it soft enough and mount it to hinge a little to minimize hooking problems Okay, got enough of Tom's bugs tied, now working on the extended body, ala Stalcup. Remembered I've tied these before. Hint, if anyone else gets squirrely and wants to tie and extended body on a needle, before starting, "grease" your needle with dubbing wax. It makes it so much easier to get the finished product off of the needle. -- Frank Reid Reverse email to reply |
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![]() I've noticed that there is no tail on this, and that is something I was trying to include. Ideas or comments? -- Frank Reid Euthenize to respond The fish don't seem to care. As I recall, Talleur noted the same, but said that, if tails make the angler feel better, one could superglue 3 moose hairs or such to the tip of the poly yarn piece. Tom |
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