Friday, February 11, 2011

Telephone Box Streamer

Converting a Ray Bergman wet fly to a streamer.


Using white thread, lay down a thread base to the bend of the hook


Tie in the Golden Pheasant Tippets for the tail


Tie in the peacock herls and wrap the butt as shown


Advance the thread in touching turns to the eye of the hook and tie in the black ultra wire for the rib and the orange floss for the body


Wrap the thread toward the bend of the hook and wrap back forward to the eye of the hook building a smooth under body of thread


Wrap the orange floss forward for the body


Rib the body with the black ultra wire in 5 approximately equal turns


Switch the tying thread from white to black


Tie in brown hackle fibers or schlappen for the throat


Tie in the red squirrel tail fibers for the wing


Trim off thread and cement the head

Tail - Golden pheasant tippet
Butt - Peacock herl
Body - Orange floss
Rib - Black floss
Throat - Brown hackle
Wing - Natural red squirrel tail

3 comments:

Brk Trt said...

Nice fly.
Thanks for the tying sequence.

Dean Endress said...

Reminds me of my friend John H. back in the 80's we'd compare notes on the various wetfly patterns in Bergman's book, but our objective was transforming them into Steelhead flies...

I need to tye up some of these, they'll work on Eastern Sierra Brown Trout...

Thank You,
DEAN ~~~

Dub The Thorax said...

excellent, as usual. nice bug!