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Gold-and-Mole Coturnix Soft Hackle
Hook - Daiichi 1510
Thread - Pearsall's Gossomer Silk (Antique Gold/GT31)
Hackle - Coturnix Quail Hackle (upper back/stripped on one side)
Butt/Tag - Pearsall's Gossomer Silk (Antique Gold/GT31)
Body - Natural Mole Dubbing (lightly touch dubbed on silk after treating it with cobblers wax)

This is a very easy fly to tye. I just touch dub the mole dubbing onto the silk after giving it a quick coat of cobblers wax. It doesn't take much dubbing at all. In fact, I like it thinner so that some of the silk thread shows through once it is wound onto the hook. I only recently started to tye soft hackles in this way. Once I saw everyones great work on Mark's winglesswet fly site, I was inspired to give it a try.

I bought the quail skin from Blue Ribbon Flies last spring (2008). They are super helpful if you give them a call.

Here is a hyperlink to their web page:
http://blueribbonflies.com/merchandise/ ... hers.shtml

Fantastic tye.....i've got a couple mole skins somewhere........ ...............guess i should hunt 'em up. You sure did a great job as usual Ray. i get in Blue Ribbon ("West" Yellowstone), usually at least once a year. Was just there in Aug. Shop til you drop. Best fly shop in the world for skins.....both hair and feathers. Grouse for instance.....Blue, Ruffled, Sharptail, etc., etc. Great quality, fair prices. i hadda tye seated right next to the owner (Craig Matthews....whew, was that ever intimidating), at the FFF I.C. this year. He's a very nice guy.....i hadda buy his new book and get it signed.
His original partner.....(after they fell out), is the guy who opened Blue Ribbon Flies here in Mt. Home, AR. He has since sold it to the guy who now owns it. If you google Blue Ribbon, you'll get both shops.....the one here is a very nice shop as well.....but if you lookin' for skins............go to the one in "West."