Nothing Rhymes with Orange

[michaelgmcgraw]

Yeah,I like that pattern,good stuff Creationbear!

[Kelly L.]

That is one heck of a fly there, I love it. The coloring is superb.

[willowhead]

Mark, i never met the dude, but Maurice was way cool.

[CreationBear]

Ha, thanks guys...it's fun to play around with new (to me) materials. In my case, I'm definitely loving the Grip 14723BL's.

At any rate, continuing the "orange" theme:

1. Here's what I was getting at in terms of a cased caddis--this has two strands of peacock spun in floss:


and another with three strands of peacock:


2. A "Spanish wet" via Lucian Vasies (who, near as I can tell, is the Romanian Charile Craven...great photography and "step-by-steps" on his website. )

FWIW, the hackle is Hareline coq de leon--much less stiff than what I was expecting, with a great "springiness" that's hard to describe. I guess it doesn't make a lot of sense to fish silk-bodied flies when you're mostly catching a lot of little, stupid trout, but I might pulse this one across a few riffles this fall, gaijin-Tenkara style, in case there's big brown that's slumming 'monst the dinks.

[CreationBear]

you'd post the recipe for this fly.

Hank, here's the recipe:

Hook: Grip 14723BL, size 10
Thread: 8/0 black Ultra-thread
Hackle: English grouse
Abdomen: blue wire/Pearsall's hot orange Marabou (divided)
Thorax: seal/mohair mix

At any rate, it's a really easy tie: just tie in the floss as a loop at the rear of the hookshank, and tie in the wire nearby. Insert the wire is inserted through the loop, catch wire and floss together with the hook of a dubbing-whirler (I use a cheapo shepard's crook) then whirl away. What you'll find is that the tighter you twist the floss, the more the wire will appear to cross it at a 90-degree angle--when it suits you, wrap the chenille up the hookshank and tie off.

Here's another picture if it helps:

[letumgo]

Jon - Those are <expletive> remarkable! These flies are really getting the ideas churning. As always, very inspirational.

[kanutripr]

Those are all stunning. I really like the buggy, fuzzy flies. They just look like something that's trying to hatch. That Spanish wet is pretty amazing too. The colour of the body mixed with the rib is going to be killer when wet.


Vicki

[hankaye]

CB, Howdy;

Thanks for the recipe, I'll have to give it a try.

Usually anything having to do with dubbing means my fingers fold up and I just have to struggle with two fists, to try and get it to stick to the thread.
Ray and Scotfly have both posted amazing how to's for doing dubbing. I just am having a hard time with it. Will continue to perceiver....

hank

[CreationBear]

to try and get it to stick to the thread

Ha...that's definitely one of my challenges as well. The dubbing on this particular fly, since it uses coarse and long staple fibers, was formed with a dubbing loop--when I try to "finger-dub," where you form a noodle of dubbing around the standing thread, the fly usually comes out looking like a coon that's had its head stuck in a jar of molasses.

[William Anderson]

I can almost imagine this underwater, fightin' its way to the surface!, all twitchy and legs going. Beauty.

Me too. I love how dynamic this is. It's wildly alive just sitting still. That's a nice body technique, I have considered just winding pearall's silk with a fine wire and cranking it up the shank. I really should. Okay I will. Wonderful example of wild thorax/hackle too. Dynamic is the best word I can come up with. Cool post.

w

I posted to this before I saw page two. This is great. Thanks for the further instruction. Cool flies.

w