trad bow
wooden stick slinging driveler
My golden pheasant tail doesn’t have that color in it that is shown in the video.
My golden pheasant tail doesn’t have that color in it that is shown in the video.
Just found some white fish air that might work
I don't know if they're bronze or not, though.Probably a source of mallard flanks paddling up and down the river in front of your place right now...
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.
I’m about ready to go to bed. I’m worn out.
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.Curious if the white calf hair would work for the wings on the Hazel /Creek fly.
Thanks Steve 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?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.
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.Thanks Steve 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?
Depends on how purty she is.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?