Randy Flynn: Skating Cranefly
The Weekly Fly: The Original Library • 24m
RECIPE:
Hook: Size 8 Daiichi 1750
Thread: Brown 6/0 Uni-thread
Body: Tan or brown horse mane woven with 3 strands of orange embroidery floss. (Embroidery floss has six strands. Separate out three of them for weaving.) When woven in, the floss forms a stripe on the top of the hook shank.
Wing: Two clumps of Elk mane tied in on the sides like pontoons, angled slightly down.
Head: Brown 6/0 Uni-thread
Hackle: High-quality dry brown rooster neck or saddle, wound and clipped on bottom. (The bottom is actually the top of the hook shank because this is an inverted pattern made to skate with the hook point facing up.)
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Randy Flynn: The Hatchmatcher
RECIPE:
Hook - Sizes 16-22 Tiemco 500U
Thread - 8/0 Uni-thread
Wing, Tail - Mallard Drake Breast Feather
Body - Small amount of dubbing in appropriate color
Hackle - Dry fly neck or saddle in appropriate size and color -
Randy Flynn: Woven Hair Hackle Dry Fly
RECIPE:
Hook - Size 10 Mustad 94840 or similar standard dry fly hook. If and up-eye hook is preferred, Use a Size 10 Daiichi 2421
Weaving Thread - 6/0 Uni-thread
Tying Thread - 6/0 in appropriate color
Tail - Badger Guard Hairs
Body - Tying thread
Hackle - Northern Whitetail Deer Hair wov... -
Rocky Maley: Gold Purpy
RECIPE:
Hook: 3/0 Allen Jackson eyed hook
Thread: Black
Body: Purple Berlin Wool
Rib: Gold Tinsel
Hackle: Bronze Tip Rooster Coke
Wing: Bronze mallard
