Thats extra pretty Bill! Great job!

Very cool fly!!

letumgo wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 12:57 pm Wayne - What hackle is that? Is it ostrich?

Lovely pattern.

No Ray, its the fluff at the bottom of any Dun, Brown, or natural Brahma hackle. Rooster or hen. I apply it in a split thread.

This has been my best producing PT type nymph for a few years.

CDL tail
Pheasant body.
No wingcase

Size 16 and 14

I am one of the few that does not believe in the Frank Sawyer "magic". I would take the American version of the PT over the Sawyer style every day. The Killer nymph? Mediocre at best. Any time you have to use a specific wool, or specific wire, or specific Pheasant, I think the pattern is a...

I thought that one of the objectives to using silk was the opaqueness of the material when wet. When I've tried to put hard as nails, crazy glue or epoxy on the body of the fly it the color was fixed, darker than I had planned and not worth the expense of the silk. Just the reverse, when you wet th...

I remember as a kid, at our local 3 chair barbershop. An argument broke out as to the make up of the RGK body material. The argument was whether the body was peacock, or Black chenille. :lol: :lol: :lol: Seriously, it almost came down to a fist fight. When I did use the RGK, a hundred years ago, it ...

So you used the wet version of the RGK?

I should start using that pattern. At one time it was practically a Colorado tradition to use that fly.

Great photos!

Hare , Partridge or Brown hen. Tail or no tail. Pheasant or no Pheasant. Gold or Copper wire. Brown, Black, or Orange thread

All these combinations work well for me, from Early Spring to Fall.

Size 16 and 14's

I seriously can not say one works better or worse than the other.

Pretty color combo. Orange is not just for October anymore.