Tying a little

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wooden stick slinging driveler
My golden pheasant tail doesn’t have that color in it that is shown in the video.
 

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wooden stick slinging driveler
It could work but don’t know how well it would hold upright after a few dunkings.
 

gobbleinwoods

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wooden stick slinging driveler
Just found some white fish air that might work
 

gobbleinwoods

Keeper of the Magic Word
Just found some white fish air that might work

When I get out of the kitchen and go downstairs I will look at what all I might have.
 

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wooden stick slinging driveler
We will just have to try some to see what’s what. Can’t believe out of all the hackles I have there is no white in there.
 

NCHillbilly

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gobbleinwoods

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We will just have to try some to see what’s what. Can’t believe out of all the hackles I have there is no white in there.

Having had a peek at your collection I can't either.
 

trad bow

wooden stick slinging driveler
I’m about ready to go to bed. I’m worn out.
 

gobbleinwoods

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I’m about ready to go to bed. I’m worn out.

As soon as the bread comes out of the oven I won't be long for up either.
 

trout maharishi

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I like the Hazel Ck fly too. I think any yellow colored fly is good choice in the spring and summertime. I like to use white hen hackle tips for the wings. There're a little more rounded and less air resistant. I also like to hackle mine a little heavier than most I see.
 

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trout maharishi

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Curious if the white calf hair would work for the wings on the Hazel /Creek fly.
You can use calf hair for the wings. That's what's used for flies like the Royal Wulff, Thunderhead, and Smoky Mt Candy use. Matter of fact I like the hair winged flies much better than hackle tip wings. They float better and are more durable.
 

trout maharishi

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If anybody on earth oughta know what it is, it's you, Steve. :) I bet you know just which Verlin it's named after, too. Verlin Evans was one of the first folks who taught me how to tie flies, sitting around a picnic table at Cataloochee tying by the light of a Coleman lantern. You were probably there. He tied this thing he called his "yaller nymph." It was just some yaller yarn wrapped around a hook with a brown or furnace hackle palmered around it, then clipped down to about 1/16" or so. And it caught fish. I started tying it, and later on, made it a little fancier. It is one of the best all-around nymphs I have ever used, one of my go-tos for the last forty years. Wild fish, stockers, whatever. #10 bottom dredger to #16 dropper, it just flat works. I call it the Verlin Deluxe in honor of Verlin and his yaller nymph that I stole from him and pimped up. One of my favorite flies.

Hook: #10-16. My go-to is a #14 curved-shank like you would tie Stimulators on.
Weight: Black nickel tungsten bead and ten wraps of lead wire sized to the hook size
Tail: Mallard flank dyed yellow
Body: Hareline yellow dubbing
Rib: Brown or furnace hackle palmered and clipped short
Legs/gills: Mallard flank dyed yellow
Thorax: Peacock herl

Tie you some up and try them. I think you'll like them. Verlin will look down and smile. Jack Bradley is probably lookin' on, too. He liked Verlin's yaller nymphs. Pour out a sip for both of them, and Ethan, too.
Thanks Steve(y) I don't remember seeing Verlin tie that nymph. Of course in those days my vision was often kinda fuzzy long about dark;) I really like your version, I think peacock is one of those materials that add something special to any fly. Is Shannon related to Charlie Messer?
 

NCHillbilly

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Thanks Steve(y) I don't remember seeing Verlin tie that nymph. Of course in those days my vision was often kinda fuzzy long about dark;) I really like your version, I think peacock is one of those materials that add something special to any fly. Is Shannon related to Charlie Messer?
Verlin's version was just a yellow yarn body with a hackle wound around it and clipped. No tail, no legs, no thorax. I caught a lot of fish on the original version, but you know how us tiers always gotta make something more complicated. :)

And yeah, Shannon is Charlies great-nephew or something like that. Part of the time I was growing up, we lived just a couple curves down the road from Charlie. He was my cousin somehow or another, I'm kin to most all those Painter Creek Messers.
 

trout maharishi

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NC Hillbilly said ''He was my cousin somehow or another, I'm kin to most all those Painter Creek Messers." If you get a divorce up there in that hollow does that mean she's still your cousin?:ROFLMAO:
 
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NC Hillbilly said ''He was my cousin somehow or another, I'm kin to most all those Painter Creek Messers." If you get a divorce up there in that hollow does that mean she' still your cousin?:ROFLMAO:
Depends on how purty she is. :bounce:
 
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