Sunflower PMD Flymph

[Roadkill]

An experiment dyeing some fox fur with a small Bouquet of Sunflowers. The dubbing came out just a pale yellow. I don't know if more petals would have made a difference.

Hook-Dai Riki 070 #14
Thread and Rib-UTC70 Yellow Olive
Tail and Hackle-Whiting Natural Dun Hen

RIMG7413 by William Lovelace, on Flickr

[DUBBN]

Very cool pattern!

[Roadkill]

The pattern will be a keeper for me to test next year along with my other PMDs. After tying about a dozen I dunked one in water and in true Flymph fashion the greenish Yellow Olive thread under color came through nicely in the dubbing when I looked at it closely with a 16X Doublet Jewlers Loupe.

This fly was in response to this interesting troutnut discussion about some members of the PMDs and PEDs....

http://www.troutnut.com/topic/9984/Publ ... ent-yellow

[Terrestrial12]

This would be devastating in my waters! My lady loves when I buy her her sunflowers....win/win

[letumgo]

Bill - Thank you for posting this pattern and the link discussing the PMD coloration. Sounds like when wet, you've nailed the coloration. Wonderful...