Mitchells Stone fly

[The fly fisher]

Just thought I would share a cool lookins stone I tied a couple days ago

Material List: Hook:Mustad C53S (Size 6)
Bead:Your choice in a large bead to match color
Thread:6/0 Uni tan
Weight:Lead wire
Tail: Brown goose biots lifted with small ball of Hareline Dubbin Hares Ear Plus Dubbin Gold #9
Shellback: Clear plastic wrap
Rib: Copper wire
Body: Hareline Dubbin Hares Ear Plus Dubbin Gold #9
Wing case: Brown swiss straw
Legs: Brown goose Biots
Thorax:Hareline Dubbin Hares Ear Plus Dubbin Gold #9
Horns/Antenias: Two goose biots
Neck/throat: Hareline Dubbin Hares Ear Plus Dubbin Gold #9



Tying Instructions: 1-Wrap thick lead wire around the front 2/3 of the hook.
2-Start your thread and cover the lead forming a nice tapered body at the same time.
3-Form a small ball of dubbing at the hook bend to hold the biot tail up.
4-Then tie in the goose biot tail.
5-Tie in your clear shell back and your copper rib.
6-Now wrap your Hareline Dubbin Hares Ear Plus Dubbin Gold #9 forward about 3/4 the way to the bead.
7-Then pull the clear plastic strip over the body.
8-Rib the body with your copper wire.
9-Tie in some Brown swiss straw
10-Dub a small amount of the same dubbing just in front of where the swiss straw is.
11-Make legs with two more brown goose biots
12-Use sizzors to fold the swiss straw back and then forward forming one win case.(keep in mid you need to do this three times)
13- Repeat steps 10-12 two more times. (you dont need to re-tie on swiss straw just keep folding the same peice untill you have three wing cases.)
14- Tie in the antenias
15- Make a throat out of some more Hareline Dubbin Hares Ear Plus Dubbin Gold #9
16- Tie off and you are done

[Esopus Guy]

Nice work thanks for sharing.

[Garrett P.]

Excellent fly! Thanks for sharing. Any chance you can make a video of this for the Fly of the Month?

[AaronJasper]

That is a really nice tie and should be in a catalog for sure.

[passinthru63]

Very nice fly. The ones I tied up yesterday look nothing like that. oh well, I'll keep working on it.

[dooberhoopa]

Nice tie...I love that hare's ear plus dubbin...that little amount of antron adds a little flash to an otherwise drab fly

[The fly fisher]

Thanks glad you all enjoyed it,

[quote author=passinthru63 link=topic=5555.msg41214#msg41214 date=1298308579]
Very nice fly. The ones I tied up yesterday look nothing like that. oh well, I'll keep working on it.
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You could try wraping the body 1/3 - 1/2 of the way instead of 3/4. When I was wrighting out the instruction I was going by memory not looking at the fly and now that I look at it the body seems to be a bit shorter than 3/4 of the way.
Hope this helps


[quote author=Garrett P. link=topic=5555.msg41210#msg41210 date=1298299222]
Excellent fly! Thanks for sharing. Any chance you can make a video of this for the Fly of the Month?
[/quote]

If you want I could make a video, put it on youtube and then post the link. I have never done it before so im not promising any quality.

[IdahoFly]

What a cool tie, It looks identicle to the yellow sally nymphs on the southfork. hank you for sharing.

[The fly fisher]

I have the day off school so I thought I would make a video for something to do

PART 1

MITCHELLS STONEFLY

PART 2

PART 2 OF MITCHELLS STONEFLY

[The fly fisher]

WHY ISNT THE FIRST VIDEO WORKING!! > lol whatever at least you can see the length of the body