Fontinalis
Tail - Married strips of orange, black and white, repeated twice*
Body - Alternating bands of orange and gray wool
Hackle - Dun
Wing - Orange with 2 fibers of black and white married over the top
*I did not repeat the tailing sequence
Forgotten Flies - Schmookler and Sils
Fontinalis Fin
Tail - White
Ribbing - Gold Tinsel
Body - Orange wool
Hackle - Brown and black
Wing - Orange with 2 fibers of black and white married over the top
Forgotten Flies - Schmookler and Sils
Armstrong Fontinalis
Tail - White hackle
Body - Orange wool
Hackle - White
Wing - White over gray over orange duck or goose quill segments
Fishing Flies and Fly Tying - William F Blades
Don Bastian Website
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel; Shaw’s dressing calls for silver wire
Body - Flat silver tinsel
Hackle - White hackle fibers; Shaw’s original dressing calls for polar bear
Wing - Narrow strips of white, black, and red; married to and topping remainder of orange goose quill sections
Shaw’s formula in the recipe plate for the Brookie Fin calls for making the wing 2/3 orange, and 1/9 each Red, Black, and White. That is accurate, but personally I don’t feel like doing more math than I absolutely have to, especially math with fractions, and when I’m tying flies to boot. I generally use two strips each of white, black, and red, and make the rest of the wing, about 2/3, orange. That’s good for #4, #6, and #8 hooks. On a #2 hook, I’d go with three barbs or flues, and on #10 and #12 hooks, one must use only a single barb each of the topping colors. This type of detailed married-wing wet fly tying is what separates the men from the boys, or the women from the girls. It requires good keen eyesight, and steady hands.
No mention of the origin of the Brookie Fin appears in Shaw’s book, but it is quite likely that she originated it. She concluded her writing on the Brookie Fin with these words: “This is an exceptionally good wet-fly pattern, producing strikes when other patterns may prove to be ineffectual under many fishing conditions.”
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Trout Fin
Robert Cavanagh
Hook - 3xl nymph
Thread - Black
Tag - Yellow floss
Tail - Golden pheasant crest
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Body - Flat silver tinsel
Hackle - Guinea fiber beard
Wing - White over black (equal parts) over red larger section duck or goose quill sections
Perrault's Standard Dictionary of Fishing Flies - Keith Perrault
Trout Fin Bucktail
Hook - Mustad R74, sizes 6-8
Thread - Black
Tail - Narrow section of red goose quill curved upward
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Body - Flat silver tinsel
Wing - Sparse white bucktail tied over the body with an overwing of sparse black bucktail, then a larger bunch of dark orange bucktail
This is one of the many variations of the pattern. It is dressed to simulate the fin of an Eastern Brook Trout.
Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson
Trout Fin Streamer
Attributed to Keith Fulsher
Hook - 3xl nymph
Thread - Black
Tail - Red goose or swan
Ribbing - Fine silver wire or oval silver (Optional)
Body - Flat silver tinsel
Hackle - Cream badger hackle
Wing - Married goose or swan (from the bottom) red, black and white
Cheek - Jungle cock (Optional)
Tied per the photo in the following book
Forgotten Flies - Schmookler and Sils
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