If any of you are wondering what has prompted the rash of unconventional patterns I've been posting lately, there is a pile of leftover hackle feathers on my tying tying that have been accumulating for several years. These are feathers that were left over after I finished doing whatever I was using them for at the time, either surplus for the quantity needed or not the right length for the job. Anyhow, I decided the other day that they really should be put to use somehow, so I've been combining them with other bits and pieces scatttered around the general area. Today's result is totally non-realistic, but strikes me as something a wild brookie might investigate.
Hook: Daiichi 1640, Size #12
Thread: Sheer 14/0, black
Hackle: French partridge upper covert (decent waterhen sub, BTW)
Tail: Barbs from goose shoulder feather dyed orange
Abdomen: Barred turkey biot dyed gold
Thorax: LaFontaine TouchDub, black
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Brookie Prospector
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Brookie Prospector
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Re: Brookie Prospector
I wasn't wondering. I was enjoying! 
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Re: Brookie Prospector
Fantastic combination. I would fish that anywhere. The trail is a nice touch. I hope there is still a pile of materials remaining. I love the experimentals.
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Re: Brookie Prospector
I do the same thing with left-over's...... not sure if it is to do with upbringing or my Scottish ancestry, but I hate throwing stuff out. I too have a large bag of mixed hackle. Oddball sizes and colours, uneven dye jobs, farmyard collected....... just a real bag of odd-sod's...... but it get reached into on a regular basis. Usually leads to me tying stuff I won't have cause to fish, but it is fun. Tied up some Goat's Toe's last night from the contents of that bag.I imagine rainbow would like that pattern as much as brook trout.
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Re: Brookie Prospector
Hey, Bill
If you have enough scraps left, I'll take a dozen #14's.
I think that'll ring the bell for Brookies up North.
Nice job of putting scraps to work.
If you have enough scraps left, I'll take a dozen #14's.
I think that'll ring the bell for Brookies up North.
Nice job of putting scraps to work.
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Re: Brookie Prospector
Bill - Lovely variation of a proven pattern. I too, find it fun seeing what can be created by the materials that one finds on their tying table.
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Re: Brookie Prospector
I missed this one Bill. I really like the materials in the pattern. It has a nice profile and contrasting texture with a hotspot. Thumbs up!
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Re: Brookie Prospector
I missed this one as well. Nice wee fly. I think it would do well on our resident cutthroat as well.
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Re: Brookie Prospector
tie2fish
Nice fly!
To clean up you just need to tie a few Jack Dennis Junkyard Caddis... Everything that needs to be cleaned up off the tying table (hair, stems, dubbing, hackle leftovers...) gets put in a loop, spun, wound on the hook, trimmed and add a hackle...
One from a 2008 cleaning to find my tabletop.
Nice fly!
To clean up you just need to tie a few Jack Dennis Junkyard Caddis...
Everything that needs to be cleaned up off the tying table (hair, stems, dubbing, hackle leftovers...) gets put in a loop, spun, wound on the hook, trimmed and add a hackle... One from a 2008 cleaning to find my tabletop.