Basque Cheesecake

[Roadkill]

RIMG6289 by William Lovelace, on Flickr

Hook-Mustad 3906B #12
Thread- UTC 70 Cream
Body- tying thread
Rib and Thorax- Kimono Rising Sun Silk
Hackle- Brown Hen Back with some white near the rachis

This was inspired by eating some wonderful Basque cheesecakes. They had a creamy center getting more yellow toward the outside. And near the edges they had baked into various shades of brown.

RIMG6292 by William Lovelace, on Flickr

I tied in the cream for the under body, then about a third of the way forward I tied in the silk and ran the cream down to the head. Next I ran the silk as a rib to the thorax area and covered the cream with windings of silk. I coated the body with Hard as Nails and added the hackle after it dried.

[FlyFisherMann1955]

Oh boy--I like how that fly looks! And a very creative way it came about; eating "people food" leads to "fish food".

I once ate a delicious Basque chicken meal at a place not far from Mountainhome AFB.

Thanks- Ken

[Mike62]

What a great name! At first, my initial reaction was of something conjured up by Marco Pierre White. The second was that it would be a great name for a Spanish Boy-band. Your fly is tapas for trout.