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- Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:19 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Martini Flymph
- Replies: 18
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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 ...
- 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
IMGP5713 by William Lovelace, on Flickr
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
IMGP5713 by William Lovelace, on Flickr
- Sun Jan 20, 2019 7:28 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Burlap Fore and Aft
- Replies: 2
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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...
- 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!
I have fished Usuals with good results out west and think this would be great during a Mahogany dun hatch!
- Sun Jan 20, 2019 1:17 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Pink Lady
- Replies: 10
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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. ;) ...
- 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!
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!
- 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!!
- 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?
- Sat Dec 22, 2018 1:35 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Molasses Cake
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7222
Re: Molasses Cake
OK, I'll have to tie a Shoo Fly Pie!
- 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!!