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Here here, I got through the woods too... :P
good work Martin!

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Submitted by Doug Gualtieri… on

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As a side note the name for this fly is derived from family name (taxanomically speaking) for Pheasants. It's the best I could come up with, the wing is comprised of 4 different species of pheasant.

[quote:16ff8ac399="J. R. Caddick"]It looks like it would be a good fly for brookies over here on my side of the pond.[/quote:16ff8ac399]

Jamie,

It's pretty fishy in the water, and was used this weekend because the first fish I caught (and took and hence gutted) contained lots of little sand eels. See attached picture.

The fly is actually a pretty good imitation of these small fish, and since the water was relatively choppy, I thought that a visible fly couldn't hurt.

Martin

Ok, here it is:

I didn't have Siberian Squirrel so I used the only squirrel I had, Red Fox Squirrel Tail. The white tips of the red fox shouldn't detract from the pattern I don't think. We use it for a lot of streamer patterns here.

Here's the original pattern:

Hook Bronze trout hook size 6 - 10
Tag Round gold tinsel (veniard nr.20)
Tail Tippets
Body Dark claret sealfur
Wing A few strands bucktail, a few strands Lureflash Twinkle and dark brown siberian squirrel
Hackle Black hen
Head Black

Thanks all for the kind words.

Bob, there are 4 saddle hackles.

Hail John of Wales! You get around my friend... :-) Your site is coming along nicely, even though I don't quite get ALL the terminology.... Straddle Bugs, eh? ;-)

Hi Martin,

That is one nice looking fly, anything with seals fur in it is pretty well a sure thing. It looks like it would be a good fly for brookies over here on my side of the pond.

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Thank you for the information Martin. I\'m a big fan of C&F Design fly boxes and looking forward to see Scierra\'s models as well.

[quote:5d98464a01="kasper the dane"]Sorry - I was not able to post my photo!
Maybe later...[/quote:5d98464a01]

Was the problem on your side or our's?

Martin

The fly was designed for sea trout and actually caught its first two trout this weekend. It is in essence a Juletræ (Christmas Tree) with a wing made from a zonker strip from seal. Looks great in the water.

And yes, the box is a Scierra box, which indeed is very similar to the C&F Design ones. Nice boxes, actually.

Martin

[quote:d521884dbb="Grant Banes"]Neat pattern, what fish did you design it for?[/quote:d521884dbb]
Sea trout, I guess! 8) In general you'll catch every predator on this fly. It reminds me of the "juletræ" - which I even use to catch pike.

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