Wickham's Fancy

Wickham's Fancy

Tail - Brown hackle tips

Hackle - Brown tied palmer

Body - Gold tinsel

Wing - Slate duck or goose quill segments

Trout - Ray Bergman

Caughlan

Caughlan

Tail - Gray mottled turkey

Hackle - Dark claret tied palmer

Body - Dark claret chenille or wool

Wing - Gray mottled turkey

Trout - Ray Bergman

Vanity

Vanity

Hackle - Brown tied palmer

Ribbing - Gold tinsel

Body - Orange floss

Wing - White duck or goose quill segments and jungle body feathers

Trout - Ray Bergman

Winters

Winters

Tail - Brown mallard or light gray mallard

Body - Claret floss

Hackle - Brown furnace or dun

Wing - Brown mallard

Trout - Ray Bergman

Wilderness

Wilderness

Tip - Gold tinsel

Hackle - Brown tied palmer

Ribbing - Silver or gold tinsel

Body - Green wool

Wing - Dark red over brown duck or goose quill segments

Trout - Ray Bergman

Tying Note - Can also be tied with a tail of dark red over brown duck or goose quill segments as shown in Forgotten Flies by Schmookler ans Sils

Montreal White Tip

Montreal White Tip

Tag - Gold Tinsel

Tail - Scarlet duck or goose quill segmants

Ribbing - Gold Tinsel

Body - Claret wool

Hackle - Claret

Wing - Black turkey white tip

Trout - Ray Bergman

Palmer Bar

Palmer Bar

Tail - Peacock sword

Body - Silver tinsel

Wing - Peacock sword over red hackle fibers over brown buchtail

Cheek - Jungle cock

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White King

White King

Tip - Gold tinsel

Tail - Orange duck or goose quill segments

Hackle - White tied palmer, orange shoulder

Ribbing - Gold tinsel

Body - White floss

Wing - White duck or goose quill segments

Trout - Ray Bergman

Something

Something

Tip - Silver tinsel

Tail - Golden pheasant tippets

Ribbing - Silver tinsel

Body - Black floss

Hackle - Black 

Wing - Green, scarlet, purple and yellow duck or goose quill segments

Trout - Ray Bergman

July Dun

July Dun

Tail - Gray hackle fibers

Body - Rabbitt fur picked out for hackle at shoulder or gray hackle 

Wing - Dark slate duck or goose quill segments

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

Brown Sedge

Brown Sedge

Hackle - Brown tied palmer

Body - Dun fur

Wing - Light slate duck or goose quill segments

Trout - Ray Bergman

Black Dose

Black Dose

Tip - Silver tinsel 

Tail - Golden pheasant crest*

Butt -Yellow floss *

Ribbing - Silver tinsel

Body - Black floss

Hackle - Black

Wing - Brown turkey, brown mallard, guinea stripe**

Trout - Ray Bergman

Don Bastian Notes

* The separate tip and butt on this revised Black Dose dressing are both listed under the tip in the Trout written recipe, but the yellow floss is placed as a butt on the color plate painting.

**I sometimes tie this fly using light brown and dark brown turkey in the wing because they marry easier than brown mallard and turkey. Also, if desired, instead of trying to marry the dissimilar brown turkey and mallard, the turkey can be veiled separately above a mallard underwing as in this photo.

Black Moose

Black Moose

Tip - Silver tinsel

Tail - Green hackle fibers

Body - Black floss

Hackle - None *

Wing - Guinea and purple married

Trout - Ray Bergman

Don Bastian Note

* There are only a couple wet flies in this entire collection that do not have a hackle; the Black Moose is one of them. This is curious since the hackle is normally such an integral wet fly component, even on sparsely dressed patterns.

Jenny Lind

Jenny Lind

Tail - Light purple quill sections

Ribbing - Gold tinsel

Body - Yellow floss

Hackle - Scarlet

Wing - Light purple with scarlet stripe, married

Trout - Ray Bergman

The Jenny Lind was designed by Mrs. O'Connell of Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the 1850s, and named for the famous soprano, Jenny Lind. This fly was tied on the heels of the Swedish Nightingale's triumphant tour of America, promoted by P.T. Barnum. Jenny Lind's operatic performances caused such a stir that streets, schools, dams, entire towns, and yes, a fishing fly, were named for her.

Note: There are versions of this fly that use light blue quill in place of the lavender, and furnace hackle for the throat. I very much feel that the lavender and scarlet are much more appropriate for the "ruby throated" soprano. Ray Bergman has this fly as the "Jennie Lind," but spelling aside, this is his version shown here. ~ Eric Austin

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Neverwas

Neverwas

Tail - Peacock sword

Hackle - Green tied palmer

Body - Peacock herl

Wing - Orange duck or goose quill segments

Trout - Ray Bergman

Hopatcong

Hopatcong

Tail - Scarlet over yellow duck or goose quill segments

 

Hackle - Black tied palmer

Body - Silver tinsel

Wing - Brown turkey Jungle over

Trout - Ray Bergman

Elliot

Elliot

Tail - Pheasant (or turkey) and scarlet married

Body - White chenille

Hackle - Green

Wing - Gray mallard with scarlet stripes

Trout - Ray Bergman

Brown Turkey

Brown Turkey

Tail - Brown hackle fibers

Hackle - Brown tied palmer

Ribbing - None

Body - Brown floss

Wing - Brown mottled turkey

Trout - Ray Bergman

Edrington

Edrington

Ribbing - Black floss

 

Body - Orange chenille

Hackle - Brown

Wing- White-tipped black turkey

Trout - Ray Bergman

Don Bastian Note

* On chenille bodies it is advisable to use two strands of floss (twisted) for the ribbing.

Pink Wickham's Fancy

Pink Wickham's Fancy

Tip - Gold Tinsel

Tail - Light brown

Hackle - Light brown tied palmer

Body - Pink floss

Wing - Dark slate duck or goode quill fibers

Trout - Ray Bergman

Post

Post

Tip - Gold tinsel

Tail - Crimson duck or goose quill segments

Hackle - Black tied palmer

Ribbing - Gold tinsel

Body - Pink floss

Wing - Dark brown turkey

Trout - Ray Bergman

Pope

Pope

Tip - Gold Tinsel

Tail - Golden pheasant tippets

Hackle - Yellow tied palmer, green shoulder

Body - Pale yellow silk floss

Wing - Guinea

Trout - Ray Bergman

Parson

Parson

Tip - Orange floss

Tail - Golden pheasant crest

Hackle - Black tied palmer

Ribbing - Silver tinsel

Body - Gray wool

Wing - Light brown turkey

Trout - Ray Bergman

Major

Major

Tag - Gold tinsel

Tail - Golden pheasant tippet and blue floss tail-tag

Hackle - Scarlet tied palmer

Ribbing - Gold tinsel

Body - Purple wool (or dubbing)

Hackle - Blue shoulder

Wing - Brown mottled turkey and gray mallard stripe

Trout - Ray Bergman

Queen of Waters

Queen of Waters

Hackle - Brown tied palmer

Body - Orange floss

Wing - Teal or gray mallard

Trout - Ray Bergman

John Mann

John Mann

Tail - Brown mottled turkey

Tip - Scarlet floss *

Hackle - Brown tied palmer

Ribbing - Gold tinsel

Body - Yellow floss

Wing - Dark brown mottled turkey or Bittern

Don Bastian Note

* The Trout recipe lists a ‘scarlet tag’ for tip, but the color plate painting clearly shows a floss tip.

Trout - Ray Bergman

Pebble Beach

Pebble Beach

Tip - Silver tinsel

Hackle - Brown tied palmer, Black at shoulder

Ribbing - Silver tinsel

Body - Dark claret floss or wool

Wing - Orange duck or goose quill segments

Trout - Ray Bergman

Murray

Murray

Tail - Scarlet duck or goose quill segment

Hackle - Orange tied palmer

Ribbing - Silver tinsel

Body - Black floss

Wing - Brown turkey or pheasant

Trout - Ray Bergman

Green Drake

Green Drake

Tail - Green *

Ribbing - Brown silk (thread or floss)

Body - Pale yellow floss

Hackle - Green **

Wing - Gray mallard dyed yellow green

Trout - Ray Bergman

Don Bastian Notes

* Green is all that is listed in the Trout recipe; the painting is more of an olive shade.

** As with the tail, green is listed in the recipe; the hackle on the painting is a dark olive and is an appropriate imitative color for the Green Drake. This difference in the appearance of these colors is an example of the benefit of the color plate paintings. The word ‘green’ by itself for tail and hackle does not provide accurate information for tying the Green Drake wet fly. Comparison between the written recipes and color plate paintings in Trout produces a collective body of fly tying information, in combination more valuable and more concise than either would possess if left to stand alone.

Gray Midge

Gray Midge

Tail - Gray mallard

Body - Crimson floss

Hackle - Light gray

Wing - Gray mallard

Trout - Ray Bergman

Lanigan

Lanigan

Tail - Black duck or goose quill segments

Hackle - Light claret tied palmer

Body - White chenille

Wing - Gray mallard

Trout - Ray Bergman

Traditional Wet Flies

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Lady Mills

Lady Mills

Tail - Golden pheasant tippet

Ribbing - Silver tinsel and black ostrich herl

Body - White ostrich herl

Hackle - Blue gray

Wing - Cinnamon with black tip

Don Bastian Notes

The ribbing on the Lady Mills is unusual. Like a palmered hackle with a tinsel rib, the tinsel should be wound first and the ostrich herl is wound butted against the rear edge of the tinsel

This wing, was all cinnamon. I made it black, like the one in the book painting, by using a black magic marker, but dabbing the feather to make it look right. A little tying secret.

Trout - Ray Bergman

Lady Gray

Lady Gray

Tail - Barred Mandarin*

Hackle - Scarlet tied palmer

Ribbing - Silver tinsel

Body - Blue-gray rabbit fur

Wing - Jungle body feathers

*The tail on this fly is barred wood duck

Trout - Ray Bergman

Kineo

Kineo

Tail - Black, white, scarlet – married

Hackle - Scarlet tied palmer

Ribbing - Silver tinsel

Body - Scarlet wool (or dubbing)

Wing - Scarlet, white, black – married

Trout - Ray Bergman

Don Bastian Note

* The tag on the Kineo is not listed in the recipe and appears questionable at best on the Trout color plates, but the enlarged photograph of Plate No. 5 in the book Forgotten Flies clearly resolves the question of the silver tinsel tag on the Kineo.

 

Belgrade

 

Belgrade

Tail - Crimson and white married

Butt - Black chenille*

Hackle - Claret tied palmer

Ribbing - Gold tinsel

Body - Yellow wool or dubbing

Wing - White with scarlet stripe, married, jungle cock eye

Don Bastian Note

*Refer to the Academy and Adirondack recipe notes for reference on the tip and butt as noted above.

The Belgrade is very similar to another Maine pattern, the Parmachene Belle. The Belgrade has a butt of black chenille while the Parmachene Belle is tied with a black ostrich herl butt, though that is not the only difference.

Trout - Ray Bergman

Bean's Special

Bean's Special

Tail - Barred wood duck

Ribbing - Silver tinsel

Body - White floss

Throat - Red over yellow hackles

Wing - White saddle hackles

Forgotten Flies - Schmookler and Sils

Flies - Leonard

California Leadwing Coachman

California Leadwing Coachman

Tail - Pheasant tail

Body - Peacock herl

Hackle - Brown

Wing - Dark slate duck or goose quill segmants

Sides - Red duck or goose quill strip

Preston Jennings Chapter of Forgotten Flies Schmookler & Sils

Captain Tom

Captain Tom

Tip - Red Floss

Tail - Blue hackle fibers

Butt - Peacock herl

Ribbing - Silver wire

Body - Silver tinsel

Hackle - Blue over red hackle fibers or mixed

Wing - Blue over white over red duck or goose quill segments

Cheeks - Jungle fowl

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Grass Hopper

Grass Hopper

Tip - Gold tinsel

Body - Yellow dubbing

Hackle - Furnace, ginger or brown

Wing - Slate

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary -  J E Willmarth

Bannock Chief

Bannock Chief

Tip - Red floss

Tail - Golden pheasant tippet

Body - Peacock herl, yellow floss, peacock herl

Hackle - Brown

Wing - Slate duck or goose quill segments

Cheeks - Jungle cock

Ameteur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

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