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Angling Publications - Fly Fish America - September 2007 Issue - Index

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HOOK: Size 4 to 12. Mustad
9672, Daiichi 1720, Eagle
Claw LO58, or TMC 5263
THREAD: Olive. Gudebrod
BCS #30, UNI-Thread Olive,
or Danville 60
WEIGHT: Lead wire, .020 in.
Deena
TAIL: Olive marabou
BODY: Olive UNI-Mohair
FLASH: Two strands of olive
Flashabou (or Krystal Flash)
HACKLE: Olive dyed mallard
flank
HEAD: Thread
Bill Willmert from Heber Springs, Arkansas tells us
about this fly. "The Deena started out as a woolly bugger
and is named for a very special pet dog. My friend, John
Heartling, was coming to fish the Little Red River and requested
a dozen olive woolly buggers. I put off tying them
until the night before, when to my horror, I found I was
out of hackle. I substituted mallard flank as a soft hackle
on what would otherwise have been a woolly bugger. Using
them, John had his first one hundred fish day.? Wow! We
all better take a close look at this pattern. It's been a long
time since we had that kind of day!
1 Place the hook in the vise, lay down a thread base covering
the hook shank, and trim as needed. Apply several turns of
lead wire (or non-lead substitute) to provide weight, making
certain to leave room at the front and the back of the shank
for the tail and hackle.
2 Tie on a marabou tail that is as long as the complete hook,
then trim off any waste. Attach a strand of UNI-Mohair while
wrapping back to the front of the hook. Wrap the Mohair forward
forming the body, tie it off, and trim away the surplus.
3 Select two short strands of olive Flashabou and tie them
to the hook "V? style to provide a bit of flash over the body.
Strip the fuzzy material from the stem of an olive dyed mallard
flank and attach it to the hook in front of the body.
4 Grasp the feather with a pair of hackle pliers, then wrap
a two-turn collar. Tie off the feather, trim the waste, apply a
whip-finish, and clip the thread. Coat the thread with head
cement to finish the fly.
HOOK: Size 2/0 to 4.
Mustad S74S SS, 34011;
Daiichi 2546; or TMC 811
THREAD: Black. Gudebrod
BCS #118, UNI-Thread
Black, or Danville 100
TAIL: Orange marabou,
shank length
Redfish Special
BODY: Silver braid
WING: Grizzly hackle feathers
over squirrel tail fibers
WING ACCENT: Gold Krystal
Flash
WEIGHT: Silver dumbbell
eyes
HEAD: Thread
Ed Rizzolo from Pearland, Texas sent us this fly for the
Fly Pattern Encyclopedia published in 2000. The reason you
see it here is two-fold. First, it's a darned good pattern or
it wouldn't have made it into the book, and second, we are
running out of your flies to publish in this column. If you
want to have your creation considered for publication, go to
www.btsflyfishing.com, click on "Submit Fly,? and follow
the instructions from there. We look forward to seeing your
innovative ideas "jump? out of your vise, into the mail, and
onto these pages. Keep those flies coming!
1 Place the hook in the vise and apply a thread base that covers
the back 85% of the shank, starting and stopping slightly
back from the eye. Select an orange marabou feather and tie it
to the hook to form a tail equal to the shank in length. Trim
off the waste part of the feather.
2 Tie on a strip of silver body braid, making certain the bobbin
ends up at the front of the thread base. Wrap the braid
forward to meet the thread, tie it off, and trim the material.
3 Tie a set of dumbbell eyes onto the top of the hook shank
(their weight will flip over the finished fly in the water). Turn
the hook over in the vise and attach several strands of gold
Krystal Flash as a wing accent. Trim them even with the end
of the tail.
4 Tie on a bundle of squirrel tail fibers and top them with
two grizzly hackle feathers to form the wing assembly. Trim
any excess materials, wrap a head, whip-finish, and clip the
thread from the hook. Apply a coating of head cement to
complete the fly.
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