Horsehair Overcoat

[Ron Eagle Elk]

CB,

Those are some really cool loking flies. Recipe for that sulpher please. (As you made use of the material, I only supplied it, they should be CB's Sulphers). Also thanks for the warning about the content. Easy to protect children that way.

Hank,

A tyro is a beginner, or at least that's what my wife said and I never argue with her.

REE

[tie2fish]

Hankaye ~ REE's better half has it right. Although I've been tying flies for about 15 years or so, I'm basically a beginner when it comes to classic wingless wets.

[CreationBear]

Sulphur

Hook: TMC 200r Size 16
Thread: Pearsall's Primrose
Hackle: (1.) Bleached (ginger) partridge; (2.) Whiting hen, light dun.
Abdomen: Pearsall's orange; strand of horsehair tied in behind thorax onto the bare hook. (In order to save myself one layer of thread, I wrapped the horsehair with orange silk toward hook point by hand, then back up to the thorax and tied off with the primrose; likewise with the horsehair "overcoat.)
Dubbing: "Tups-y" mixture (creamy yellow possum, snowshoe hare underfur, pinch of orange seal) inserted into a split-thread.

At this point, you may bring the hen hackle back through the thorax to "flymph it up a little;" then wind a sparse collar of partridge. The second fly I tied with all orange Pearsall's which allowed me to use wood duck fibers ss a tail; that's ginger hen wound through the thorax, and finally a REDACTED of wood duck.

At any rate, I think they'll serve for my stupid little trout here in the Smokies come late April when "yaller" is the order of the day (both mayflies and Little Yellow Sallies) but if I were fishing more educated fish in a true "match the hatch" situation, I might try using a brown mallard tail and brown silk to mimic a shuck:

[hankaye]

RonEE & tie2fish, Howdy;

Thanks, Guess I am the 'tyro' on this forum...
Anyone know the origin's of that mononicker?

just askin' ...
hank

[michaelgmcgraw]

These threads just get better all the time!

[crazy4oldcars]

Had to look it up myself!
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/tyro
It seems to mean beginner.
I was wondering what being a Tyrolean had to do with it?
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/tyrolean

Kirk

[hankaye]

crazy4oldcars, Howdy;

Thanks, at least I know that there are NO negative connotations implied or inferred .

[michaelgmcgraw]

Whew!

[redietz]

Thanks, Guess I am the 'tyro' on this forum...
Anyone know the origin's of that mononicker?

From the Latin word for "young soldier/recruit". Even in Latin, it was extended to mean any beginner. It's been used in English for hundreds of years; I'm somewhat surprised that so many people on this forum haven't heard it used before. Means exactly the same thing as "rookie" and has the same connotations.

[letumgo]

CreationBear - Wow! I love the sulphur pattern you posted. That looks LETHAL!