Here's a few that seem to do well...
This was described to me by gadusmorhua by PM and was called a "bugler". I can't say this one follows the exact dressing as I've never actually seen one in the flesh.
I've had some success with this...
The underbody is plastazote foam cut to shape with pearly mylar over the top and a hackle tip whipped in at the tail. The back is coloured by permanent marker and the whole thing is then given a thin film of 5 min epoxy. BEWARE OF SWOOPING TERNS!
This next one has been a long time favourite pattern and has accounted for loads of fish. Harking back to the days of big nasty tandems on Rutland. This is usually tied on a smaller size 8 or 6 L/S and a 3 or 3.3mm bead rather than this near 4" beast on a single Wilson. A late season fly.
This one is based on patterns in George Barrons recent article in FF+FT and has already produced fish. The colour scheme has been changed to protect the innocent.
The hook is a size 10 Hayabusa 761, the body is coral micro "straggle 'n' gold", the wing is light brown mink.
As far as suspender minkies go just tie in a fekkin great lump of plastazote foam in at the head, preferably before tying the rest of the fly or alternatively some large booby eyes.
I did very well years ago with a big 4" muddler with a wee double stinger. The head was trimmed natural deer hair about 1/2 the length of a size 6 L/S, the body was silver tinsel and the under wing was maraglit or something like that with a wing of cree cock hackles that were long enough to cover the stinger. The hideous beast was used as a floating fry with its head in the film and the rest of the fly under the surface at a nice shallow angle. Definitely not the sort of thing to use for C+R.
Fry patterns
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