Jeff
"Owl" Jones
Georgia
When I was a boy, my father took me fishing for crappie and catfish every summer. Among the thousands of things he taught me during those trips, were a few that I'll never forget. Be a good steward of the lakes and rivers, enjoy the wildlife around you, be thankful for what God has created for us, respect the rights of others, and always be careful and remember which hand is holding the cookie, and which hand has the worm in it!
These things are useful still, even though I've long since left the worm
container behind, and grown to love midges and tiny creeks you can jump across.
I love wild brook trout, a good float on an unknown tailwater, and a delayed harvest stream full of bruisers in winter. I enjoy tying anything and everything, and I'm finally getting better at it, now in my fourth or fifth year......I can't remember exactly how long I've been bitten!
I fish mainly in the Southeast,
but I'd love to find myself out west, or back in the spring creek region of
Pennsylvania, Maine, and Labrador. Perhaps the Catskills even. 
Hmmmmmm... There's just so much water and so little time, as the saying
goes!
I hope the flies I submit will be useful and probably, entertaining. Try not to laugh at them too hard, or they might be embarrassed!
Brookies Rule. Owl.
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Tier: Jeff "Owl" Jones
Hook: Dry fly
#14 to #20.
Thread: Gray 6/0 (8/0 for #18 and under).
Body: Thread.
Hackle: Dry fly.
Wing: Elk hair.
1. Tie in thread and wrap to hook bend and back to head, then back to bend and whip finish if desired, but do not cut.
2. Tie in hackle and wrap (close together) to just shy of the hook eye.
3. Tie in stacked elk hair with tips even with the hook bend.
4. Whip finish.
To make the hair flare out more, wrap hair with only one turn of thread before tying on the hook.
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Tier: Jeff "Owl" Jones
Hook: Hopper
hook #12.
Thread: Tan 6/0.
Tail/Post: McFlyon strip (yellow).
Body: Tan fly foam strip.
Hackle: Brown dry fly hackle.
Legs/Antennae: Olive goose biots.
Thorax: Snowshoe rabbit foot dubbing.
1. Tie in thread at eye and wrap back to bend, tying in strip of McFlyon parachute post material. Leave small part for tail.
2. Tie in turkey biots leaving tips for antennae and butts for legs.
3. Wrap thorax with rabbit hair dubbing.
4. Whip finish.
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Tier: Jeff "Owl" Jones
This fly is for skittish trout on slack water. Change the colors to suit your local species.
Hook: Dry fly #14 to #18.
Thread: Black 6/0.
Body: Green Quill.
Wing: Bleached Elk Hair.
Hackle: Rusty brown dry fly hackle.
1. Tie in and wrap to hook bend.
2. Tie in quill at bend and wrap to head.
3. Tie in elk hair and trim excess at an angle toward head.
4. Wrap hackle over excess elk hair to eye.
5. Whip finish.
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Tier: Jeff "Owl" Jones
Hook: Dry fly #14 to #20.
Thread: Black or Gray 6/0 (8/0 on #18 and smaller).
Body: Snowshoe rabbit foot dubbing.
Wing: Bleached elk hair.
1. Tie in thread and wrap front to back, and back to front again.
2. Touch dub dubbing loosely and wrap to just short of hook's eye.
3. Wrap thread back to bend, with more dubbing, and lock in with thread wraps going back to front.
4. Tie in elk hair and whip finish.
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Tier: Jeff "Owl" Jones
Hook: Dry fly
#12.
Materials: Vise waste basket.
Place Super Glue on hook and dip in the waste basket.
Now you've seen it!
Note by Ed Gallop: Obviously you can detect that there is more to this fly but you at least get the idea what Owl was referring to. It is ugly but attractive in it's own way.
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