Bob Scammell-picture from ACA
Bob Scammell was a true sportsman. He loved to fly fish his home waters where he had a cabin! His home waters had an amazing salmonfly hatch that if you were lucky to experience it, might be one of the most amazing days you would ever have on the water. Imagine casting gigantic dry flies to greedy big brown trout!
Tonight our gang tied up the Henry's Fork Special using a phentex body instead of foam that was a perfect match for the underbody of a salmonfly! We then took the time to tie up a Letort Hopper. Bob loved Letort Hoppers. Rick Miyauchi showed us how Bob loved to tie the Letort Hopper using, a light yellow phentex for the body! There was a very interesting twist to this pattern. The body is ribbed with UTC tan or yellow thread but before doing this, we took a razor blade and carefully sliced the phentex to give it a buggy look. Bob showed this neat but effective tying technique to Lefty Kreh.
We have two tying sessions left. Next week, Larry Prowse is our guest tyer. It will be an evening of tying nymphs. Larry wants you to bring UTC 8/0 olive thread. Our final tying session of the year is Garnet Clews. Both sessions should be a blast.
Rick Miyauchi
Henry's Fork Special
Hook: TMC 200R sizes 2-8
Thread: UTC orange-6/0
Tail: Moose
Body: phentex
Hackle: brown (trimmed)
Wing #1: standdard deer Hair
Bullet Head: Deer Hair-Black and wing #2
...add some legs
...from KSL.com
...from Montana Field Guide
Letort Hopper
Hook: 3xl dry fly hook sizes 10-14
Thread: Tan UTC 140 or yellow
Body: light yellow phentex
Rib: Tan or yellow thread
Under Wing: Turkey
Over Wing: Deer
Head: Deer
Hoppers from the edge of the Raven River
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