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

Hatches Magazine - Fall 2010

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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