Flat Bodied Yellow Stone
Fly of the Month 07.10 Flat Bodied Yellow Stone
Towards the end of the month, Tom Adams and I start exchanging emails.
“ What do you think we should tie this month?”
“ I don’t know Tom, what is next on the list?”
“ What list?”
“ Well, how about a yellow stonefly?”
“ Yeah, stoneflies are awesome!”
Tom’s job is to write up the recipe, tie the fly and photograph it before sending it to me. My job is to research the fly and find out if there is anything I can write that is both entertaining and informative. I figure, being that we’re doing a little yellow stonefly, I am going to find some really good information that I can “borrow” for my part of the write up. I’m not too worried; I fish so I can make up a story. So, I do what I do best; procrastinate. Then, at the last possible minute, I open Tom’s recipe and photo. Wait a minute, that’s not a dry fly! It is like being faced with the reality that your wife has caught you coming home from the pool hall. What do I say?
Fortunately Tom has provided an absolutely beautiful photograph that tells its own story and if the fly fishes as good as it looks, it should slay them.
What more do you need to know?
- Tim Wilhelm
Fly of the Month 07.10 Flat Bodied Yellow Stone
Hook: Nymph or small streamer – Tiemco 5262 or Mustad 79580 equivalent, Size: 8, 10, 12, 14
Thread: Brown 8/0
Tail: Three or four Lemon Wood duck flank feathers
Abdomen: Blend yellow and cream Hare’s Ear dubbing and rib with palmered and clipped brown hackle, or brown micro tubing
Wing Case: Turkey
Thorax: Dark yellow blend dubbing
Legs: Brown Partridge
Directions:
1) Under wrap (five or six turns only) lead substitute beginning at three eye lengths back from eye. Cover lightly and taper both ends, using thread. Move thread to just in front of hook bend.
2) Gather four or five Lemon Wood duck flank feathers ( save the remains of flanks feathers from tying wings on Catskills or other flies and use the long ones leftover for tails, etc. ) without any webbing or fluff. Tie on top of hook shank with three wraps, let bobbin hang.
3) Tie in rib, in this case micro tubing. Use a short section to tie flat on top of the hook shank. Return thread to the hook bend and let the bobbin hang.
4) Blend the yellow and cream dubbing by using small portions and pick apart with fingers and then recombine to tie on. Add dubbing wax (if any wax is used, it is sometimes sufficient to touch the applicator with the two fingers used to spin the dubbing on). Dub thread and advance to the thorax, let bobbin hang.
5) Return to the rib and advance the material, wrapping in open turns to the thorax. Tie off with four thread wraps, trim the excess and let the bobbin hang.
6) Add a small amount of the dark yellow dub (less than half of what is needed to complete the thorax) and return the thread to a point immediately in front of the abdomen and let the bobbin hang. This step is to raise the bed where the wing case will tie in, which makes it easier to finish.
7) Use Turkey mottled wing feather, cut several fibers, slightly larger than the width of the thorax and tie in with the “shiny” side up at the back of the thorax and on top of the dark yellow dub. Tie in only the rearmost portion with three wraps of thread.
8. Dub the remaining amount needed of dark yellow dub stopping two eye lengths back from the eye.
9) Pull the turkey over the op of the dubbing. Tie down the wingcase with three or four wraps.
10. Gather six or eight brownish Partridge feathers and tie in underneath at the same point of the tie in of the wingcase. (At the tie-in, hold the Partridge at an inverted angle on the side facing the tier. Wrap two firm, but not hard, wraps to position the Partridge and let the bobbin hang. Using a fingernail, rotate the Partridge to the position under the hook and finish tying in). Trim excess.
11. Form head, apply head cement.
- Tom Adams, Tim Wilhelm
Towards the end of the month, Tom Adams and I start exchanging emails.
“ What do you think we should tie this month?”
“ I don’t know Tom, what is next on the list?”
“ What list?”
“ Well, how about a yellow stonefly?”
“ Yeah, stoneflies are awesome!”
Tom’s job is to write up the recipe, tie the fly and photograph it before sending it to me. My job is to research the fly and find out if there is anything I can write that is both entertaining and informative. I figure, being that we’re doing a little yellow stonefly, I am going to find some really good information that I can “borrow” for my part of the write up. I’m not too worried; I fish so I can make up a story. So, I do what I do best; procrastinate. Then, at the last possible minute, I open Tom’s recipe and photo. Wait a minute, that’s not a dry fly! It is like being faced with the reality that your wife has caught you coming home from the pool hall. What do I say?
Fortunately Tom has provided an absolutely beautiful photograph that tells its own story and if the fly fishes as good as it looks, it should slay them.
What more do you need to know?
- Tim Wilhelm
Fly of the Month 07.10 Flat Bodied Yellow Stone
Hook: Nymph or small streamer – Tiemco 5262 or Mustad 79580 equivalent, Size: 8, 10, 12, 14
Thread: Brown 8/0
Tail: Three or four Lemon Wood duck flank feathers
Abdomen: Blend yellow and cream Hare’s Ear dubbing and rib with palmered and clipped brown hackle, or brown micro tubing
Wing Case: Turkey
Thorax: Dark yellow blend dubbing
Legs: Brown Partridge
Directions:
1) Under wrap (five or six turns only) lead substitute beginning at three eye lengths back from eye. Cover lightly and taper both ends, using thread. Move thread to just in front of hook bend.
2) Gather four or five Lemon Wood duck flank feathers ( save the remains of flanks feathers from tying wings on Catskills or other flies and use the long ones leftover for tails, etc. ) without any webbing or fluff. Tie on top of hook shank with three wraps, let bobbin hang.
3) Tie in rib, in this case micro tubing. Use a short section to tie flat on top of the hook shank. Return thread to the hook bend and let the bobbin hang.
4) Blend the yellow and cream dubbing by using small portions and pick apart with fingers and then recombine to tie on. Add dubbing wax (if any wax is used, it is sometimes sufficient to touch the applicator with the two fingers used to spin the dubbing on). Dub thread and advance to the thorax, let bobbin hang.
5) Return to the rib and advance the material, wrapping in open turns to the thorax. Tie off with four thread wraps, trim the excess and let the bobbin hang.
6) Add a small amount of the dark yellow dub (less than half of what is needed to complete the thorax) and return the thread to a point immediately in front of the abdomen and let the bobbin hang. This step is to raise the bed where the wing case will tie in, which makes it easier to finish.
7) Use Turkey mottled wing feather, cut several fibers, slightly larger than the width of the thorax and tie in with the “shiny” side up at the back of the thorax and on top of the dark yellow dub. Tie in only the rearmost portion with three wraps of thread.
8. Dub the remaining amount needed of dark yellow dub stopping two eye lengths back from the eye.
9) Pull the turkey over the op of the dubbing. Tie down the wingcase with three or four wraps.
10. Gather six or eight brownish Partridge feathers and tie in underneath at the same point of the tie in of the wingcase. (At the tie-in, hold the Partridge at an inverted angle on the side facing the tier. Wrap two firm, but not hard, wraps to position the Partridge and let the bobbin hang. Using a fingernail, rotate the Partridge to the position under the hook and finish tying in). Trim excess.
11. Form head, apply head cement.
- Tom Adams, Tim Wilhelm