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Hook: Ken Sawada single low water #12
Thread: Cranberry Gossamer silk thread
Tail: lower orange tipped fibers from golden pheasant tail
Body: a mix of antron yarns (olive,rust, brown, blue) and thin green flashabou in split thread twist
Hackle: Ringneck Pheasant

Great looking fly.

Pheasant and Phaux?

Nope, "faux" as in artificial instead of natural materials. You had me second guessing though.

I like it. It should be a good one to try for March browns.

That's a nice use of that pheasant feather. I know they can be a bit stiff compared to the softer soft-hackles and the length of the barbs is usually an issue (these are probably just my issues). This turned out to be quite nice, and quite a mouthful at a size twelve. You're not messing around, this is a serious insect.

nicely tied.

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I'm using this pattern for steelhead, but yet to get any steel from it. But the trout love it, even though I'm not targeting them. Not a size that I would normally use for trout. This year I have really put some time into flymphs for steelhead and have done fairly well but a lot of trout have been landed. I'm thinking of trying some larger flymphs than I would normally use for trout this Spring. It could be the trout are just looking for whatever comes down in the cold weather and lack of hatches.

This reminds me of an article of Sylvester Nemes, I think in Salmon and Trout, or is it Trout and Salmon. The last part is about fishing with big Wingless Wets:



And a picture of such a big Fly:



Greeting

Gorgeous fly Carl! I love the combination of materials. I'd gladly swing that bad-boy in front of the local steelhead.

Ruard - Thanks for posting that article and photos. I've got to tye some of those enlarged soft hackle flies.

I second the thanks Ruard. I've always thought stonefly soft hackle patterns had potential. I'm going to try some of those as well. We have a nice salmonfly hatch coming up soon that could have some possibilities. I do use large soft hackled flies for our october caddis and have done well over the past few years, better than dries or nymph patterns.