Joyce, No tail, The fly is a no brainer when it comes to tying. I cut a strip of the soft porous yellow foam about 1/16" wide, tie it in at the bend on top of the strand of peacock. Wrap a couple of turns, tie off and pull the peacock over the back and tie off. That is it. I use either black or yellow 10/0 thread. If I want an outstanding head I use the black thread. Sometimes it is the only fly that will work. I have had some strange things happen though. Several times I have about exhausted using small flies. The trout were taking sz 44 1/2's. Could not get a hit. Changed over to a sz 14 olive dubbed body bugger and picked up a number of trout casting to rises. These were always larger trout. This has happened a number of times over the past few years. Go figure. Tony
Joyce Westphal wrote: > Tony, do you put any type of "tail" on this tiny fly? One of our best flies > is the Pedro, originally tied with a bit of Pedro donkey fur simply wrapped > around the hook on a size 22-24 and left with a tuft at the eye end. Now we > substitute some of that gray/brown multi-colored acrylic/wool that you can > get in the craft store or Wal-mart. Works just the same. I get fish on this > fly when nothing else works. Only problem is seeing the fly, but usually the > fish take it with such gusto that even this is not a problem. Small flies > are the rule on our river. Joyce
