Brook Trout

3 days ago
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a Lew Oatman fly from the recipe in The Founding Flies by Mike Valla

Hook: #6 - 10 streamer
Thread: olive green
Tail: white under black under orange hen hackle barbs, short
Rib: medium gold tinsel
Body: back 3/4 white floss, front 1/4 salmon or pink floss, tapered
Throat: same as tail
Underwing: red bucktail
Wings: grizzly rooster hackles under olive rooster hackles, olive hackles stained on the rachis with alternating red and yellow dots
Shoulder: jungle cock
Head: thread, white bottom (enamel ?)

Head cement recipe:
Goop
Xylene (epoxy thinnner)

Instructions:
Fill a quart jar half full with Xylene
Squeeze a tube of Goop into the Xylene
Shake until the Goop is dissolved; add Xylene to desired consistency

Apply with a pin or needle dipped in the liquid

https://youtu.be/AJbvJUixaCs

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