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by Roadkill
Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:19 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Martini Flymph
Replies: 18
Views: 4728

Re: Martini Flymph

I'm stumped by the name. Why did you call it a "Martini Flymph". Is it because the body is olive? You got it Ray! After a long drive last fall from Eastern Oregon, just before dinner I was washing and drying my father in law's old Army blanket from my old pickup truck during the cocktail ...
by Roadkill
Wed Jan 23, 2019 7:35 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Martini Flymph
Replies: 18
Views: 4728

Martini Flymph

Hook-Dai Riki 070 #12
Thread-UTC70 Light Olive
Tail- Red Hackle barbs
Rib-Small Sivler Ultra Wire
Body-Touch Dubbed WWII OD Wool Blanket dryer lint
Hackle-Toucan Yellow Hen Neck

ImageIMGP5713 by William Lovelace, on Flickr
by Roadkill
Sun Jan 20, 2019 7:28 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Burlap Fore and Aft
Replies: 2
Views: 1427

Burlap Fore and Aft

Here is a simple fly from an Old Timer fly tyer up in the Wallowa mountains of Oregon by the name of George. I never met George but he was a fishing buddy of one of my fishing buddies decades ago. I don't know if George came up with the idea for this trout fly but I had fished the Burlap Steelhead p...
by Roadkill
Sun Jan 20, 2019 3:46 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Better's Usual variant
Replies: 3
Views: 1442

Re: Better's Usual variant

Ron

I have fished Usuals with good results out west and think this would be great during a Mahogany dun hatch! 8-)
by Roadkill
Sun Jan 20, 2019 1:17 am
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Pink Lady
Replies: 10
Views: 3809

Re: Pink Lady

In some Oregon waters Epeorus mayfly duns can have a pink cast to the body and can be referred to a Pink Ladies. I know a commercial tier in Eastern Oregon that used the hair from his wife's Champagne Poodle in his dubbing to match the hatch on his own flies. It had just the right tinge of pink. ;) ...
by Roadkill
Thu Dec 27, 2018 6:28 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Spotted Sedge Emerger
Replies: 14
Views: 4508

Re: Spotted Sedge Emerger

Steve,

I love the pattern and will have to tie it and your Sparkling Sedge SH Emerger and fish them off in different light
or water conditions this spring.

Your Upper Columbia Flybox contains some other gems as well! 8-)
by Roadkill
Tue Dec 25, 2018 9:35 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: CDL (Coq DeLeon Hen)
Replies: 4
Views: 1634

Re: CDL (Coq DeLeon Hen)

Gorgeous tie!! 8-)
by Roadkill
Tue Dec 25, 2018 6:51 pm
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Primrose & Light Olive Spiders
Replies: 2
Views: 1331

Re: Primrose & Light Olive Spiders

Nice flies! What size are they?
by Roadkill
Sat Dec 22, 2018 1:35 am
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Molasses Cake
Replies: 24
Views: 7222

Re: Molasses Cake

8-) 8-) OK, I'll have to tie a Shoo Fly Pie! ;)
by Roadkill
Wed Dec 19, 2018 12:10 am
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: Not Quite a March Brown
Replies: 3
Views: 1591

Re: Not Quite a March Brown

Those look like superb fake bait to me!! 8-) :D