Winter Brown

[ladystrange]

Winter Brown

 

Hook 18 -14

body - orange silk (used silk floss)

legs - woodcock

head - fine peacock herl tied to hide thread.

 

 

[hydropsyche]

Thats a nice tie. I dead drift soft hackles with surprising results. My favorite is the hares ear soft hackle that I tied for one of the swaps we had. I bet you can't wait to give them a try.

[ladystrange]

thanks, 3rd try at a traditional spider

 

i'm going to tie more when i'm back from vacation. i havent fished this kind of pattern before, so i am really looking forward to trying them out.

[Fishietales]

Terrific fly girl, your tying is spot on, I'd use this fly over here no problem, when I get a minute I'll tie you a traditional pattern called a " Waterhen Bloa " it's very easy but I don't know whether you can source the materials, the dressing is as follows

 

Hook: #14 down eye

Thread: Yellow UTC

Body: A tiny pinch of young mole fur

Hackle: The feather is from the underside of the Moorhens wing

 

Basically you run the thread to just opposite the barb on the hook, you then dub the thread with very fine mole fur and wind it to just before the eye, then tie in the hackle by the tip, then wind on no more than three turns, tie off and whip finish, a very good winter/spring fly,

 

I'll post a photo tomorrow for you

Tightlines

[Fishietales]

As promised the Waterhen Bloa, I've also add a coulpe of other spiders you might like to try

 

 

 

[ladystrange]

i'm pretty sure i dont have moorhens wing. oddly, i do have mole. finally i have found a use for it.

 

do you have a pic of the moorhens wing? i think i have grey partridge.

 

thanks for the pictures. when i get home next week i will try some different patterns. i have seen the recipe for different bloa but for the most part i dont have the materials for them.

[Fishietales]

i'm pretty sure i dont have moorhens wing. oddly, i do have mole. finally i have found a use for it.

 

do you have a pic of the moorhens wing? i think i have grey partridge.

 

thanks for the pictures. when i get home next week i will try some different patterns. i have seen the recipe for different bloa but for the most part i dont have the materials for them.

 

I will post the photo for you maybe tomorrow, need batteries for the camera, but basically it's a dark brown wing, the advantage of the moorhen is the waterproof qualities, but you can use the wing feather from a hen blackbird, or a darkish starling breast feather, they do work quite well, there are other Bloas that use Snipe, grouse, and brown partridge, preferably english and not french, we are coming to the end of our shooting season here or I could have bagged a few for you, but I'll see what the lads have up for grabs and let you know

[ladystrange]

i have grouse and wing of a little black bird that we ended up calling a starling but not really sure about that. the others i dont have. or if i do, i dont know it.

 

i picked up a few boxes from an estate with a bunch of stuff in it, some of it a little odd - like the mole hair.

[Weedy1]

i picked up a few boxes from an estate with a bunch of stuff in it, some of it a little odd - like the mole hair.

 

Was someone farming Grandma?

[flyangler]

I really like that combo of orange floss and peacock, LS.

[ladystrange]

Was someone farming Grandma?

 

 

LOL!! i do believe that was the case.

 

 

 

Thanks Flyangler

[Inconnu]

LS if you are at the show on Saturday or Sunday I can leave some starling at the FACA booth if you like....Kerry

[Fishietales]

Please don't tale ofence but i found this pattern in an old 1908 tying book for a winter brown, so I've dreesed one

 

Hook 16 to 12 fine

 

Thread pearsalls scarlett

 

Wing inner covert feather from a young woodcock

 

Thorax green tinged peacock herl

 

Head tied thread

 

 

The book was by a GW Gallican

[ladystrange]

hey kerry, will be there both days. i am tying at the superfly or northern lights table in the afternoons with the hook and hackle club. i have a few things for you as well. my saturday shift starts at one.

 

 

Fishietales - nice tie. thanks. the picture i had was a little different and used orange instead of scarlet. i have modern silk floss in scarlet. i will try a few. see how it goes.