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#18 Pheasant Tail
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Rain Bow

Hook - Wet fly
Thread - White under floss tag, Black head
Tail - Scarlet
Tag - White floss
Ribbing - Gold tinsel
Body - Black floss
Hackle - Gray
Wing - Cinnamon duck or goose quill segments

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth
 
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Katoodle Bug

Hook - Wet fly
Thread - White under floss body; Black head
Tail - Brown mallard aka bronze mallard
Body - 3 joint body of dark blue, yellow and orange floss
Hackle - Brown
Wing - Brown turkey

Author's Note

Also made with green, yellow and orange body, gray mallard tail, brown hackle down body, brown turkey wing.

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth
 
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Plummer

Hook - Wet fly
Thread - White under floss body
Butt - Black ostrich herl
Ribbing - Gold tinsel
Body - Yellow floss
Shoulder - Black ostrich herl
Hackle - Yellow
Wing - Teal

Trout - Rey Bergman
 
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Winter Brown

Hook - Wet fly style
Body - Orange silk
Wings - Hackled with a feather from the inside of a Woodcock’s wing
Head - Peacock herl

Yorkshire Trout Flies - T E Pritt
 
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Winter Brown

Hook - Wet fly style
Body - Orange silk
Wings - Hackled with a feather from the inside of a Woodcock’s wing
Head - Peacock herl

Yorkshire Trout Flies - T E Pritt
I have seen several tying videos/photos of Pritt’s Winter Brown spider. Is it meant to imitate a specific winter (or late season) insect?
 
From the book

Notes

A favourite early fly on all the Yorkshire rivers, killing well on wild, windy days in March and April. The wings assume a lighter shade in the course of ten days after its first appearance on the water, when it is commonly
dressed as the little winter brown, or light woodcock shown on the next page.

Pritt, TE. Yorkshire Trout Flies (p. 16). Philip Storey (author of The Complete Bad Angler). Kindle Edition.
 
The wind was whipping in south central PA so I hit the vise instead. Size 18 Frenchies and a 14 & 16 Guide’s Choice Hares Ear.
 

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August Dun

Hook - Wet fly
Thread - Black
Tip - Gold tinsel
Ribbing - Gold Tinsel
Body - Orange dubbing
Hackle - Orange
Wing - Slate duck or goose quill segments

Author's Notes

Also made with brown body, rib yellow, gray hackle tail, brown hackle, slate wings.
Also made with turkey wings.

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth
 
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Tups Indispensable

Hook - Mustad 3906, Partridge L2A (10-16)
Thread - Black
Tail - Blue dun hen hackle fibers
Body - Yellow floss
Thorax - Pale pink dubbing fur
Hackle - Blue dun hen

The Book of Fly Patterns: Over 1,000 Patterns for the Construction of Artificial Flies - Eric Leiser
 
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Tups Indispensable

Hook - Mustad 3906, Partridge L2A (10-16)
Thread - Black
Tail - Blue dun hen hackle fibers
Body - Yellow floss
Thorax - Pale pink dubbing fur
Hackle - Blue dun hen

The Book of Fly Patterns: Over 1,000 Patterns for the Construction of Artificial Flies - Eric Leiser
@nfrechet
What….no urine soaked scrotal hair from a ram for dubbing???

Great tie!!
 
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