Another general attractor dry fly pattern I came up with for my small water brook trout box.
- Hook: #12-16 dry fly
- Thread: Black
- Tail: Moose body hair
- Body: Yellow ostrich herl with red floss band
- Hackle: Grizzly
So, I just spent the last hour doing one of the most fun things we can do as fly tiers, and that’s sitting down at the bench and experimenting. And since I just started working on my spring brook trout dry fly box, I thought maybe I should come up with a new attractor pattern. And my first attempt, the first one I came up with, I liked it enough that I sat down and tied six of them.
Now, it’s definitely a unique pattern. It looks a bit like something tied in the “royal” style with the red floss band in the middle. But I didn’t put a wing on it and I did not use peacock hurl. I was thinking, what could I use when I saw some yellow ostrich herl on my pegboard. Now, ostrich herl itself, it’s not that unique but it’s not used very often in dry flies. And yellow ostrich is certainly not used that often.
Now if you don’t have yellow ostrich but you want to tie this thing, I think you could substitute a yellow synthetic, maybe some kind of fuzzy dubbing, and still put the red band in the middle.