Desert Fox Patterns

[Old Hat]

Played around with some desert fox dubbing the last couple days. I really like the colors available from the piece I had. There was a grizzled red, brown, and light/dark grizzly. Has a fine dun underfur and the hair is soft out to the tips of the guard hairs. Anyway a few patterns to look at.

Spider pattern

Thread body with copper wire ribbing. Red dubbing of the desert fox for the thorax and a badger variant hen hackle.

Caddis patterns


I used the red grizzly color for the abdomen and the dark grizzly color for the thorax then palmered a badger variant hackle through the thorax for this one. Tipped it off with some copper wire.


I mixed the red and dark grizzly colored dubbing for the thorax area on this one. Golden badger hackle.

Flymph pattern


This one used a red CDL tail and CDL hackle. For the hackle I distributed individual fibers around the shaft just behind the eye then pulled them back and finished the head. Used the red/brown dub for the body and copper wire rib.

[letumgo]

Fantastic! The coloration on these are wonderful. That desert fox fur has a beautiful mottling to it.

[GlassJet]

Those are very cool

I have three salukis I've been planning to tie a set of flies from, and you've given me a few ideas how to start, here...

Andrew.

[tie2fish]

Lovely dressings in both concept and execution.

[cicvara]

-All are good, if I had to choose then caddis.