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Grey Hackle Red Soft Hackle, size 14.
An old time pattern from my youth. Great Beaver pond, alpine creek, Brookie pattern. Simple to tie. If I had Yellow floss I would tie some Grey hackle Yellows as well.

Superb! How did you form the underbody? Wow! Really nice floss work.

Grey Hackle Yellows were one favorite from my youthful fly boxes (mainly bandaid and tobacco cans).

Bill - How young were you when you started fly fishing? We're you tying your own flies?

Roadkill wrote:Grey Hackle Yellows were one favorite from my youthful fly boxes (mainly bandaid and tobacco cans).

Bill, were the Grey Hackle Yellows tyed with a Grizzly tail or a Red tail?

letumgo wrote:Superb! How did you form the underbody? Wow! Really nice floss work.

Thanks Ray. I just built the body out of thread (Veevus), then covered with floss.

Ray,

I started real flyfishing with a fly rod when I was 8 with an HDH line, before that it was a spinning rod with a casting bubble and a fly on lakes. Tying my own started when I was 10 with a Birthday fly tying kit


DUBBN,
The ones I bought were tied with a red tail while the ones I tied were made from the same Grizz hackle. Two of my other favorite wets were Gray and Brown Hackle Peacocks. My early tying came mostly from the pages of either Field and Stream or Outdoor Life. My first pattern book came from a bookstore at college just before summer vacation.

Nice example of the 'cigar-shaped' body that defines those patterns. You are a neat tier, sir. That one has brook trout all over it. Cutthroat too, I'd bet. The yellow version with red tail, in larger sizes, #8-#10, was a popular fly for the cutthroat-stocked lakes of my region as early as the 60's, that I know of, & probably prior to that.

Seems there are a number of visitors here who started very young (some, tying & fishing soft-hackle flies even before Syl Nemes invented them.) If we'd all lived in the same neighborhood we might have poached golf course ponds together. Be cool to run a thread of Flies We Fished As Kids, for those who started before the age of, say, 20.

A great reproduction of an old time favorite, Wayne. Very nice floss work, and that's a lovely grey hackle.

Classy looking pattern for sure.