Jurassic Woolly Worm
Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 7:02 pm
Mind you, with the name- I did expect this one not to be with fruit, but something like a freshly gnawed beef thigh bone or some such.
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Re: Jurassic Woolly Worm
Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 7:15 pm
Wow! Fantastic looking fly in a material I do not think I have seen used before. Tpo marks Sir.
Mind you, with the name- I did expect this one not to be with fruit, but something like a freshly gnawed beef thigh bone or some such.
Mind you, with the name- I did expect this one not to be with fruit, but something like a freshly gnawed beef thigh bone or some such.
Re: Jurassic Woolly Worm
Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 7:19 pm
MM,
Tom
Tom
Re: Jurassic Woolly Worm
Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 8:44 pm
Izaak, Howdy;
Like MM I was expecting the setting to be some thing along
the lines he mentioned or at the least stuck in some 'Amber'...
Looks like a dude I saw on Carnaby St, London in 1970.....
only his hair was more Purple/violet whatever....
hank
Like MM I was expecting the setting to be some thing along
the lines he mentioned or at the least stuck in some 'Amber'...
Looks like a dude I saw on Carnaby St, London in 1970.....
only his hair was more Purple/violet whatever....
hank
Re: Jurassic Woolly Worm
Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 9:10 pm
Izaak, Howdy;
addendum to my other post... just so's we'er all on the same page.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nYktHyMKEQ
hank
addendum to my other post... just so's we'er all on the same page.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nYktHyMKEQ
hank
Re: Jurassic Woolly Worm
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 4:36 am
Wow beautiful fly and picture. How did you do that with the hackle??
Greeting
Greeting
Re: Jurassic Woolly Worm
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 2:10 pm
Ruard,
Lots of hairspray!
Actually, I didn't do anything. This is what the biot section of the feather looks like when wound around the shank. I was surprised the with result myself!
Tom
Lots of hairspray!
Actually, I didn't do anything. This is what the biot section of the feather looks like when wound around the shank. I was surprised the with result myself!
Tom
Re: Jurassic Woolly Worm
Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 7:03 pm
Very nice--there's a fly here in the Southeast called the "Yallerhammer" that uses the flight feather of a Northern/yellow-shafted flicker (or the modern sub, dyed dove) in much the same way. (FWIW, the Yallerhammer is defintiely an American original--the Cherokee were using a version of it in Colonial times and probably much earlier. 
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)Re: Jurassic Woolly Worm
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 7:27 am
CreationBear,
Nice! Thanks for sharing that. Just goes to show you that, in fly tying, it has probably been done before.
Nice! Thanks for sharing that. Just goes to show you that, in fly tying, it has probably been done before.
Re: Jurassic Woolly Worm
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:48 am
A well-known local guide, Hugh Hartselle, ties this version:
http://www.smokymountainflyguide.com/im ... hackle.jpg
he calls the "Smoky Mountain Blackbird;" the hackle, I believe, is a dyed-yellow starling flight feather. At any rate, experimenting with these more "stiffly" hackled patterns on my high gradient streams has been on my "to-do" list for a while.
http://www.smokymountainflyguide.com/im ... hackle.jpg
he calls the "Smoky Mountain Blackbird;" the hackle, I believe, is a dyed-yellow starling flight feather. At any rate, experimenting with these more "stiffly" hackled patterns on my high gradient streams has been on my "to-do" list for a while.