Bazzer69 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 11:21 pm
Sac Football today, large PT

Dunno why it’s turned 90degrees! I’m a guide not a photographer
Barry

Sac Football today, large PT

[quote=Bazzer69 post_id=97773 time=<a href="tel:1572926349">1572926349</a> user_id=2136] I was fishing today on the Sacramento River for one or two Sac Footballs i today and in the past have experimented with Mylar vs Tinsel’s. Guess which wins hands down, not the flashy flies. My copies ...

I was fishing today on the Sacramento River for one or two Sac Footballs i today and in the past have experimented with Mylar vs Tinsel’s. Guess which wins hands down, not the flashy flies. My copies of Frank Sawyer PT’s work great as well as a Birds Nest. The flashiest fly I have success on is a Pr...

Why not flat silver tinsel instead of Mylar? I think it would be better proportioned in a shorter shanked hook.
Just how I might tie it.
Barry

Dana, I second that, a nice swap indeed. I don’t know about finding any Spur Winged Plover ( I never heard of it) but a swap could be along the lines of forgotten patterns.
Barry
Edit. I just looked it up, in the words of Monty Python “loverly plumage”

Now that is nice fly!
B

A true flymph, thanks for posting a great pattern
B

Fly that dead drift show little or no moment with their hackles etc. But my observation on several fast moving water is that most of the aquatic insects that hatch In open water float to the surface very slowly with little or movement, I guess that’s why dead drifting a nymph pattern is so deadly. T...

Sounds wonderful, a real challenge. Would you fish it with a cane rod? What weight?
Barry