Published Sep 25. 2020 - 3 years ago
Updated or edited Sep 26. 2020

Western Coachman

The Royal Coachman is a dry fly I have fished before, and absolutely love! I also love the Royal Wulff as well which is very similar with a different tail. The Western Coachman though is a fly im used to seeing as a wet fly, or I guess maybe its an emerger. But a customer of mine asked me to tie it as a dry fly, so here is my attempt at that. They are beautiful flies, especially with the golden pheasant tails. That is some trippy cool looking birds with awesome feathers!

Anyway I tied up 24 of these for this gentleman who I am hoping will catch some really nice fish with them. I tied them in size 12 and 14, which both came out good. Being the first time ive tied these though, I hope I did a good enough job. For anyone watching who has tied these before, please let me know if I did anything wrong. The head and hackle on this particular one didn't come out perfect, the others did much better. Just I can't chew gum and walk, so tying and talking and filming together usually make for a bumble of a tie.

So here is the list of materials for this particular fly. Like I said I like using Risen hooks when I tie myself, so please go check them out. Their barbless dry fly hooks are awesome! https://www.risenfly.com/collections/hooks/products/barbless-dry-fly-100
I also got you all a discount there, so they are even a better deal when you type in "McFly" at checkout.

Hook: Risen "Dry fly 100bl" or firehole sticks number 419 - https://www.risenfly.com/collections/hooks/products/barbless-dry-fly-100 - https://fireholeoutdoors.com/firehole-sticks-2020/
Thread: Veevus 10/0 in black - https://amzn.to/2FzN8Q1
Tail: Golden Pheasant Tippet - https://amzn.to/3msZp9y
Rib: Small sized gold ultra wire - https://amzn.to/2FqDIGD
Abdomen: Peacock Hurl - https://www.risenfly.com/collections/feathers/products/premium-peacock-herl
Wing: Deer Belly Hair - https://amzn.to/3ksf2fp
Hackle: Coachman Brown dry fly saddle hackle - https://amzn.to/2ZKEF3h
Head Cement: Loon water based - https://amzn.to/32FLWn7

Originator: 
Submitter: 
shawnstve
.

Log in or register to pre-fill name on comments, add videos, user pictures and more.
Read more about why you should register.
 

Please notice that some of the links in the video descriptions may be affiliate, which means that they can link to web shops, which pay the video producer a commission (also known as "affiliate revenue") when a viewer clicks a link and buys a product.
The Global FlyFisher does NOT make any money from these links or purchases!
You can support the Global FlyFisher directly here, if you feel like it.

Since you got this far …


The GFF money box

… I have a small favor to ask.

Long story short

Support the Global FlyFisher through several different channels, including PayPal.

Long story longer

The Global FlyFisher has been online since the mid-90's and has been free to access for everybody since day one – and will stay free for as long as I run it.
But that doesn't mean that it's free to run.
It costs money to drive a large site like this.

See more details about what you can do to help in this blog post.