Lets hear your ideas for a name for this fly, i been calling it a muncher

[Tami]

1. The body is dressed well down the bend, which puts a slight curve in it. When nymphs are dislodged from their aquatic hiding places, they tend to drift curved. It would be safe to assume fish see many curved snack on a daily basis.

2. The fly is two-tone and the colour difference is pronounced. From experience, two tone nymphs seem to produce more strikes. 3. The thorax colour is fiery brown. Year in and year out, fiery brown is a great fish catching colour.

4. The fly has a double wingcase. Many steelhead fishermen I tie flies for swear by the addition of a double wingcase on all their nymphs, not just stoneflies. All I can say is, if you tie the Muncher with a single wingcase, generally it will not produce as well as the double wing case version.

5. The legs are tied in flat producing a smashing sliouett. Take a look at the finished fly from below. From the fishes point of view the Muncher has eat me written all over it.

Dressing:

Thread: Black
Hook: Kamasan B175 or Mustad 3399
Sizes: To suit the conditions. Range: 6 to 12, with 8 being the most popular.
Body: Grey rabbit.
Wing cases: Tan plastic raffia
Thorax: Fiery brown seals fur
Legs: Well marked hen saddle.

Instructions
Tie the thread on well down the bend.
Dub some fur onto the thread and wrap the dubbing 3/4 of the way along the shank.
Tie in the raffia
Tie in the feather by the tip
Dub the seals fur - just a pinch - for the first part of the thorax
Pull the legs over and secure them, but do not snip off the excess feather.
Pull over the raffia to form the first wing case, but do not trim away the excess.
Fold the raffia back over itself and tie it down. Just as you tied in the first bit.
Pull the feather up and secure it.
Dub the second segment of seals fur
Pull the feather down, secure it and trim the excess.
Pull over the raffia to produce the second wing case.
Secure it and trim the excess.
Scuff up the seals fur.
Ta-da, now go fishing.

Notes.

Split the raffia along its length for tying size 8 and smaller flies. The addition of clear nail polish or head cement will make the wing cases more durable.

(I generally dont do this, as I feel the fish can smell it and they will refuse the fly. )

Yup. I know there is no thread base under the rabbit fur and as a result the body might spin. I fish the fly tight to the bottom and bust them off at an alarming rate. So, they never get the chance to unravel. A second productive variation is to use white rabbit for the body and use light Hungarian partridge feather for the legs. If you have them, the black and white feathers from a jungle fowl cape make stellar looking legs on both dressings.

Fishing Tips: I prefer the upstream nymphing technique, with little or no manipulation of the fly. If you are fishing it across and down, let the fly hang for several seconds before you pick up to recast.

As for the name? Fish love munching on it! Let me know if it works.


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[Super Star!]

id say it looks like a bad hair day...

[Lee Borgersen]

I'll try to offer some feedback biased upon reading your awesome description of this species.

Quote: Curvaceous

Quote: Fiery

Quote: Smashing sliouett

Quote: Stellar looking legs

Quote: The body is dressed well down the bend, which puts a slight curve in it.


In my opinion this is one exciting creation. As far as I can figure It would have to have a very special name to match the enticing description of this one of a kind fly. So after much thought I asked my son for some help. I explained that we were looking for a fitting name and proceeded to read him the descriptive list of attributes as described above.

It didn't take long and he had the most fitting name biased on the description. He decided the name should be. 
 

ANGELINA JOLIE 

Please don't let some of the nut balls like me discourage you. We just can't help ourselves sometimes. Actually I admire your ability to create flies and lures since I don't have the skill or patients to do so. It must be a blast to create and field test your own creations.


SMG & Son

[Duckslayer]

Phylis Diller?

[Spinach]

"Hairy Roach"

[Lee Borgersen]

Don King

[Lee Borgersen]

How bout the "Taint Fly"

It Taint lookin to good.
But it Taint lookin to bad.

Yep, I like it the Taint Fly 

[Tami]

WOW all of them are great keep it coming... then next sun, i will put them up and have a vote... and that is what it will be named...
The one who picked the name used will go into the fly book as well, and also in fly tying magazine, when the pattern goes in..

[Mayfly]

Northernfly

[Grute Man]

Thistle Fly

[GirlGuide]

Gal,

I thought this through and through..and I kept coming back to the same name...

Being that you used the fiery brown, It has to be the "furious nymph"!  

   gg

[Outdoors Junkie]

MNO Fly (everyone comes here to munch on good info)!    

[Lee Borgersen]

Confucius say: "You catch um... I fly um up".

[LLtaxidermy]

SUPERSTAR!!!   

[Super Star!]

SUPERSTAR!!!   

LOL she has a special editon one called that lol it will be out soon... dont worry...

[Tami]

I had a friend who tied this too, and he never named it, no one who tied it ever named it... so soon it will have a name
Ng
Queen#2

[LLtaxidermy]

Is it pink? the SUPERSTAR has got to be pink!!

[Tami]

Very True

[kenhuntin]

It kinda looks like a european sawfly but then it looks like the final stage of the Brazillian death worm

[Tami]

Is it pink? the SUPERSTAR has got to be pink!!

it will look like a clown wig of red blue pink purple yellow and green and orange

[Super Star!]

Is it pink? the SUPERSTAR has got to be pink!!

it will look like a clown wig of red blue pink purple yellow and green and orange

we still have to work on the contract and all.... dont give to much out lol

[Tami]

yes no pics just yet till the unveiling

[LLtaxidermy]

the superstar is gonna be a rainbow!!!! 

[Tami]

Yup hes a fancy pants

[HD]

I could post a couple cracks in here, but your doing just fine!

[Tami]

LOL Hookie

[Lee Borgersen]

OK, I'll try again 

The Woolly Mammoth
The Fuzzy Buster
The Harry Jerry
The Zeetcy fly
The Hellgrammite
The Hellgrammite not
The Hellyasay
The Ely Dragon
 
I'm running out of ideas so let me think here.
 
How bout Closure Fly (pronounced phonetically (Close-yer-fly)

[Tami]

I like all of them
Getting a pole together with names that you have picked, and we will let the votes pick for us.. Thanks to all who posted some names...