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Another forum I frequent brought up the subject of this fly. I thought it might make an interesting topic, here. Anyone tie and fish a wingless version of said fly? We have cow pastures in proximity to certain runs on the Genny, and I have used a winged version with some success.

Mark

That's one that might have some running for the pattern books.
I have not used nor tied one in a good long while and then it would have been a winged wet not wingless. It was a popular fly here and in Australia during the first half of last Century and then kind of fell from favour as a lot of wet fly patterns did.
We have a LOT of dairy cows around our trout rivers now and I have more luck with blowfly patterns. The Cowdung fly was used here as a beetle imitation and tied with a plump body.

Mataura,
That's interesting!

Mark

Howdy All;

Got my intrest with the conversation, looked around abit and found this;

http://www.flyforums.co.uk/fly-tying-fo ... f-fly.html

hank

Soft-hackle wrote:Mataura,
That's interesting!

Mark

Mark, I woud be interested to see the pattern you are thinking of. I bet if I looked in six different books for a reference to this fly I could come up with six different recipe's.
Seems to be each country has it's own take on the pattern. An American tie differing from British, British again differing from a New Zealand fly........

Here's my version based on Leisenring's description, but slightly different in materials.



Hook: Standard wet fly 12-16
Thread: Orange
Hackle: Red-brown hen
Tag: Flat gold tinsel
Body: A mix of olive, yellow, tan, and orange rabbit fur. The overall appearance is olive-orange. This is dubbed Leisenring style.
Wing: Cinnamon Turkey

Mark

Mark, this is really nice. It seems to me to fit what I imagine the pattern to depict, and still carries a very consistent Libertone impression. Mike Connor once posted one of his very long posts on the Cowdung flies, the history, the naturals and thoughts on materials. I couldn't find it in a search, but it was a lot of information to consider. I wish I could find it. I might try to tie some of these up at some point. If in my lifetime I ever get wings to turn out as nice as these, I'll take a pic.

Cool post, Mark.

w

Dub-ya, Howdy;

Maybe this is the post you were thinking about;

http://flymphforum.com/viewtopic.php?f= ... g&start=10

The above is page 2. Where he gets up to his usual thouroghness ...

hank

Mark, that would make it No.7 pattern!
Nice looking wet of yours, most of the patterns I know of call for wool as the body material. Either dirty yellw/brown natural wool or pink toned woll from a ram's undersides.
I will get back to this with some more thorough descriptions and perhaps photos, but more pressing persuits today....... opening of the gamebird season here this morning and I have materials to gather!

Jeff.

-I'm sorry. This is the wings.