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Hook - Mustad Heritage
Thread - Black
Body - Rear half orange thread, front half black thread
Hackle - Black hen

Fishing Flies - Malcolm Greenhalgh & Jason Smalley

Beautifully dressed, Norm. I'm curious to know if the original pattern was dressed with silk thread. Looks like I need to look that one up.

Striking pattern Norm.

Ron Eagle Elk wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 4:52 pm Beautifully dressed, Norm. I'm curious to know if the original pattern was dressed with silk thread. Looks like I need to look that one up.

i would take a guess that silk thread was originally used but the book did not specify

i dont tie with silk threads and i dont think the fish know the difference

from the book



These are very simple flies to tie, many having a body of only tying thread (use a round thread – not flat thread, nor floss silk); if using real silk thread (e.g. Pearsall’s Gossamer), wax the thread with solid tying wax. As one name for these flies indicates, the hackle is a soft one, usually from a game-bird, sometimes a hen barnyard fowl. Game-bird hackles usually have a very thick stalk, so they are tied in by the feather tip (stroke the hackle fibres back to expose the tip). The hackle should be sparse: two or two-and-a-half turns at most. Hooks: wet fly, sizes 13–4, unless otherwise stated. They are still very effective flies to use, in both rivers and lakes anywhere in the world, when trout, char, grayling or other fish are feeding on flies or emergers at, or close to the water surface. There are many recorded instances when these have out-fished more precise imitations of what the fish were eating. In rivers fish ‘dead-drift’, in lakes cast out and tweak or work back slowly.

Thank you, Norm. When I started to check on it, I discovered my library was short a book. Much appreciated.

interesting

which book is that from?

thanks in advance

“French Fishing Flies” by Jean-Paul Pequegnot. Another fly in the book is Peute.