Here's the latest manifestation of an idea I've been fooling around with, on and off for a couple of years now. 'Could have fooled me' I hear you say! Quite
For a good while it was one of those ideas that you just can't seen to reconcile in fur and feather.... great in the head, sh!t on the hook. I showed a couple of 'prototypes' to Alex (Midlander), who curled his lip, in his own inimitable style, and asked me what my thinking was...... good question; good point. "Nothing in particular. Probably just an excuse to get some of that lovely Macaw, that cost me a fortune, on a bloody hook!" The pattern languished in the corner of my fly box for a season or two, never really yelling at me that today was its day. Anyway, some time last season, Party Boy (Wee Jimmy) was giving me a report on one of his Lomond Sea-Trout missions. It reminded me that the Lomond fish have a wee penchant for yellow, or so I'd heard, and that 'nothing in particular, with a bit of yellow, and a bit of Macaw thrown in', might just tempt a Sea-Trout or two. I tweaked the pattern with some yellow grizzle hen, and sent them up to Jim for his next Lomond trip.... and guess what?
'Hiawatha'
Hook: B175 size 8, 10 or 12
Tail: Yellow GP body feather.
Rib: UTC wire 'Hot Yellow'.
Body: Flat gold, or holo.
Body Hackle: Grizzle Hen dyed yellow (Lakeland)
Wing: Macaw (Cookshill)
Cheeks: JC splits dyed chartreuse (Artifly)
Throat: Picric Blue Jay
Thread: UTC Yellow
Hiawatha
. Incidentally, I didn't curl my lip, it's just my face is stuck like that after years of curmudgeonly crankiness.
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