Peppermint Twist

[letumgo]

Peppermint Twist
Hook - Mustad Model R50-94840/Size 10
Abdomen/Thread - UNI-Stretch (White)
Tag/Rib - Sulky Holoshimmer Tinsel (Holographic Cranberry / No. 145-6055)
Tying Thread - 8/0 UNI-Thread (Black)
Thorax - Four Strands of Peacock Herl (Claret) - Tyed in by the tips and reinforced in a thread dubbing loop before wrapping.
Hackle - Hungarian Partridge (Claret)

I bought some new tinsel today at JoAnn Fabrics.

EDIT - After studying the photos a bit, I think this fly would look better if the head was formed with wine-colored tying thread, instead of the black that I used.

[willowhead]

DAMN Ray............the standard WOW!!!!!!!!! doesn't even come close............STUPID! is all i can think of..............WAYYYYYYYY STUPID!!!!! It KILLS! KILLER! Frickin' OUTTA SIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Btw, any chance you tellin' me where i can get a Claret Hung. skin??????????

[kanutripr]

HOOOHOOOOO!

It's Christmas time in New Yawk!

(sorry bad accent )



Vicki

[letumgo]

Thanks Mark. This is a pretty little fly. I was sitting hear listening to the music from Charlie Brown and felt like tying a Christmas themed fly. Earlier today I bought a few cool colors of holographic tinsel to play with.

[willowhead]

i really look forward to anything you wanna post.........just post it, i'm alllllllllll ears.........dig? i just put a couple up myself. One is over at the "tying" page.......where they be talkin' bout bein' anal..............

[letumgo]

Mark - I dyed the partridge skin myself. It was the first time I have tried dying materials. I only dyed the neck part of a partridge skin. Most of the old skin I had had been picked clean, but I still had a bunch of feathers on the neck and shoulder area. I mixed up a batch of dye in an old pot that my mother gave me (my wife didn't want me to use the ones we cook with ). The hackle looks kind of light when it is dry, but looks darker when it is wet. The peacock herl was dyed at the same time. The claret color becomes more evident when it gets wet.

[willowhead]

Thankx Ray, i was wondering (sorta had a feelin') if you'd done it. Specially since i've never seen one before. Like both you and Vicki, i really gotta thing for Claret.........prolly my favorite color for (specially fishin') flies. It just seems to "work" in the "entire" asthetic way, no matter what the flies' intended purpose.
Apparently you did a pretty darn good job with the dyin'.

[DNicolson]

Another great fly Ray, Claret is certainly making a comeback on these pages.
It is a favourite with Scottish/UK anglers, a lot of the old traditional wet flies over
here use it. I like a the look of that ribbing material, I'll have to investigate on-line
a bit further.

By-the-way http://www.lakelandflytying.com/ do have a range of dyed Partridge.

[flyfishwithme]

If you rib a 'Black Magic' with this you have one of the greatest Grayling flies.
If you are interested a Black magic is:
Hook - I use a size 16 B525
Silk - Black
Body - Black silk
Thorax - Peacock herl
Hackle - Black hen.
Add the red holographic and go fishing for those Grayling.

[Soft-hackle]

Ray,
I don't know if it is me or what, but I've tried dying peacock and found it very difficult. I've also noticed that regular peacock often turns claret color when wet underwater, even if it is not dyed that color. This could be why it is often used when tying imitations of Isonychia-like the Zug Bug. Terrific tying job.

Mark