(Variation)
Hook - Wet or streamer style (10-16)
Thread - Black
Tail - Red duck quill strip
Body - Flat silver tinsel
Hackle - Badger
Wing - Duck quill, married sections of red, black, and white (white forms the top portion of the wing) (White over black over red)
Author's remark
This pattern is also tied as a streamer fly. Like the Parmachene Belle and other brightly colored flies, it is used primarily for brook trout.
The Book of Fly Patterns: Over 1,000 Patterns for the Construction of Artificial Flies - Eric Leiser
McGinty
Hook - Wet fly
Thread - Black
Tail - Gray mallard topping scarlet
Body - Alternate black & yellow chenille
Hackle - Brown
Wing - Black turkey white tip
Trout - Ray Bergman
Golden Midge
Hook - Wet fly
Thread - Black
Body - Yellow dubbing
Hackle - Brown
Wing - Slate duck or goose quill segments
Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth
Tups Indispensable
Hook - Mustad 3906, Partridge L2A (10-16)
Thread - Black
Tail - Blue dun hen hackle fibers
Body - Yellow floss
Thorax - Pale pink dubbing fur
Hackle - Blue dun hen
The Book of Fly Patterns: Over 1,000 Patterns for the Construction of Artificial Flies - Eric Leiser
August Dun
Hook - Wet fly
Thread - Black
Tip - Gold tinsel
Ribbing - Gold Tinsel
Body - Orange dubbing
Hackle - Orange
Wing - Slate duck or goose quill segments
Author's Notes
Also made with brown body, rib yellow, gray hackle tail, brown hackle, slate wings.
Also made with turkey wings.
Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth
Water Cricket
Hook - Wet fly
Thread - Orange silk
Ribbing - Black silk
Body - Yellow or Orange silk
Wings -Hackled with a feather from the Golden Plover’s breast, in its summer plumage, or the wing or back of a Starling (I used starling)
Author's Note
It is sometimes ribbed with black silk. Notes In its early stages the insect of which this is supposed to be an imitation, is not a fly but an active little spider. It runs upon the surface of the water and is often taken greedily. The dressing shown in the plate is ample.
Yorkshire Trout Flies - T E Pritt
Winter Brown
Hook - Wet fly style
Body - Orange silk
Wings - Hackled with a feather from the inside of a Woodcock’s wing
Head - Peacock herl
Yorkshire Trout Flies - T E Pritt
Hook - Wet fly
Thread - White under floss body
Butt - Black ostrich herk
Ribbing - Gold tinsel
Body - Yellow floss
Shoulder - Black ostrich herk
Hackle - Yellow
Wing - Teal
Trout - Rey Bergman
Katoodle Bug
Hook - Wet fly
Thread - White under floss body; Black head
Tail - Brown mallard aka bronze mallard
Body - 3 joint body of dark blue, yellow and orange floss
Hackle - Brown
Wing - Brown turkey
Author's Note
Also made with green, yellow and orange body, gray mallard tail, brown hackle down body, brown turkey wing.
Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth
Rain Bow
Hook - Wet fly
Thread - White under floss tag, Black head
Tail - Scarlet
Tag - White floss
Ribbing - Gold tinsel
Body - Black floss
Hackle - Gray
Wing - Cinnamon duck or goose quill segments
Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth
Yankee
Hook - Wet fly
Thread - Black
Tail - White
Ribbing - Silver tinsel
Body - Blue dubbing or floss
Hackle - Scarlet
Wing - White duck or goose quill segments
Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth
Plath
Hook - Wet fly
Thread - Black
Tip - Silver tinsel
Tail - Scarlet
Body - Green dubbing
Hackle - Scarlet
Wing - Gray turkey
Amateurs Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth
Spider
Hook - Wet fly
Thread - White under floss body, Black head
Tip - Gold tinsel
Body - Light blue floss
Hackle - Furnace
Hackle - Black
Wing - Brown turkey
Authors Note
Also made dark gray floss body, black hackle, dark gray turkey wing.
Also made yellow dubbing body, mallard hackle.
Amateur Tyer's Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth
Whitney
Hook - Wet fly
Thread - Black
Tail - Green
Ribbing - Silver tinsel
Body - Green floss
Hackle - Green
Wing - Slate duck or goose quill segment with yellow strips up sides
Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth
High Priestess
Hook - Wet fly
Thread - Black
Tip - Orange floss
Tail - Orange over gray over blue duck or goose quill segments, married
Ribbing - Yellow floss, corded
Body - Black floss
Hackle - Yellow hackle fibers
Wing - Orange over blue over yellow duck or goose quill segments, married
Cheeks - Blue hackle tip
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