Jurassic Woolly Worm

[Izaak]

DSCN4355 by flympher, on Flickr
Hook: Mustad Signature R70, size 14
Thread: Danville 6/0, olive
Hackle: "Biot" strip from partridge flight feather, dyed olive

[Mataura mayfly]

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.

[Izaak]

MM,



Tom

[hankaye]

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

[hankaye]

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

[Ruard]

Wow beautiful fly and picture. How did you do that with the hackle??

Greeting

[Izaak]

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

[CreationBear]

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. )

[Izaak]

CreationBear,

Nice! Thanks for sharing that. Just goes to show you that, in fly tying, it has probably been done before.

[CreationBear]

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.