[Fish Tech]

After 6 days of being skunked on the river I tied up some small olive wet flies on TMC 200R size #4 hooks. With the heavy angler pressure and low 350cfs flows this year I haven't been having much success with my larger Intruders and Marabou swinging flies.

Water temp. this morning was 49 degrees. Within 15 minutes of starting this 23" male took on a short swing.

About 45 minutes later this 30" male grabbed the same fly and I thought this was going to be a banner day! But the wind came up and put many leaves in the water slowing the bite. Fished for a couple more hours before calling it a day.

 

[shawnmsx33]

great to hear someone is fishing ethically there. great ties to as always!
whats the hackle?

 

[Fish Tech]

Hackle collar is 2 turns of Peacock body feather. Pretty simple tie. Here is recipe:

Hook: TMC 200R size #4 or a 4XL wooly bugger hook
Weight: 8 turns of .020 lead wire in the thorax area
Tail/body hackle: olive grizzly hackle
Body: medium Varigated Chenille black/olive
Rib: green wire “BR” size counter wrapped through the body hackle
Collar: 2 turns of Peacock body feather
Head: black thread

 

[josie]

Love the simplicity of those olives. Nice fish

 

[kova1385]

nice, im heading up there in a few weeks

 

[Only On A Fly]

Very nice Leave friday for 2 weeks.

 

[Deep Swing]

Those look good to the vise tonight it is , not tied in 5 months time to get going, thanks!
DS


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[Fish Tech]

Made some improvements to the Olive wet fly. Changed hook to a stronger Daiichi 2151 size#2 and added a short grizzly olive marabou tail.

 

[Steelygrey]

just out of curiosity, what were you throwing the 6 days you were skunked?

 

[Fish Tech]

The 6 days I was skunked:

Black Riach variation A.J. #1.5 blind eye

3" Black/olive marabou cut-shank

freestyle Dee: white wing with Black/green body A.J. #1.5 blind eye

Chartruse Mahoney A.J. #3

freestyle Dee: Black/blue A.J. #1.5 blind eye

Beauly Snow fly A.J. 3/0

 

[shawnmsx33]

great ties! thanks for the recipe