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PROFESSOR, WARDEN'S WORRY streamer pattern(s)submitted by Will Taylor - Little Bucktails for Brookies
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PROFESSOR, WARDEN'S WORRY
Submitted By
Will Taylor
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PROFESSOR
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WARDEN'S WORRY
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HOOK
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Mustad 9672 #8
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THREAD
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black uni 8/0
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TAG
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fine oval gold tinsel
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TAIL
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red hackle fibers
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RIB
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fine oval gold tinsel
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BODY
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yellow floss
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WING
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grey squirrel
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THROAT
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brown hen hackle fibers
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HOOK
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Mustad 9575 #8
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THREAD
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black uni 8/0
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TAG
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flat silver tinsel, #16 (also tied with gold tinsel)
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TAIL
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narrow strip of red duck wing quill, long
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RIB
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medium oval gold tinsel
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BODY
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yellow-orange dubbing (I used rabbit), or wool, picked out
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WING
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natural brown bucktail from top of tail
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THROAT
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yellow hen hackle fibers
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Comments
Professor
My dad had a wonderful box of brook trout flies when I was a kid, many of
them tied on eyeless hooks with gut snells. This squirrel-winged version
of the Professor was one of the patterns I recall, along with a strip-wing
version using a woodduck flank wing. This is one of my favorite patterns
for swirling into pint-sized pools on tumbling mountain streams. I just
have to tie one on my tippet to go back to those barefoot days on Beehunter
Creek.
Warden's Worry:
Developed by warden Joseph Stickney, of Saco, Maine; an old standard since
the 1920's. I originally wanted to tie this with a squirrel wing, but a
traditionalist on the list shamed me into "doin' it proper." I'm glad he
did - it looks a lot better the way that Stickney intended it. (I do have
a couple with fox squirrel wings in my bucktail wallet, but I'll be careful
who I show those to).
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