I am so jealous of your going there!! Good luck!! Spent a week there last year and loved it. Cant wait to get back! Thanks for sharing your flies!! Cheers.
Beautiful flies. I'm sure you'll have a good time. I've heard that this Winter the OP has been fishing the best it has in like 30 years, so definitely give us a report.
This will be my first (of many) trips there so I'm no expert, but I tied some up on size 2, 1 and 1.5
The reports I've been hearing really have me fired up for this trip!
-Murph
The wings on three of them are a bit long. Glasso and Wentworth tied their wings in true spey fashion regarding the length of the wing. They had their wings end somewhere between the point of the barb and the hook bend, never longer than the hook bend.
The ORANGE HERON looks like a variation because you used orange hackle (the Glasso original uses grey heron - blue-eared pheasant or heron grey Whiting Spey Hackle or dark grey coque are excellent substitutes for the illegal heron in the US) and the wing doesn't look like it is hot orange hackle tips.
The SOL DUC of yours looks like you left the GP crest feather tail off, but that might well be a function of the photograph and not an omission of the topping tail. The throat is a bit too heavy on this fly as well. Glasso and Wentworth used not more than 2 turns of duck flank for the throat, and the duck flank was usually stripped on one side to keep in sparse.
The MR. GLASSO doesn't have a topping over the wing as Wentworth designed and ties it.
I've never seen a Quilleyute tied by Glasso or Wentworth that had a tippet tail like yours. Also, the tinsel tip on this fly is too long.
Overall, these are nicely tied and all of them should find fish for you.
You are spot on as usual Flytyer. Thanks for the info about the wing length, I didn't know about that. I grabbed the wrong fly to represent the Orange Heron. The book I had didn't list a topping over the wing on the Mr. Glasso, so that's helpful, and I did vary the Quillayute with the tippet tail. You are a wealth of information and I appreciate all of it. Accurate as hell man!
thx spey D
what do they consider the olympic penn
like from point no point inward towards that floating bridge ,was just up their but my first chance to see pnw
thx for the heads up
moe
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