John Mundinger
Colorado
My first memories of fishing are from the summer that I turned four.
My grandfather made me a pole from a stout tree limb to which he attached a length of
line, a real cork bobber and a hook. We dug for night crawlers from his pile of leaf
compost and had a delightful time fishing for "sunnies."
I began fishing for trout while on a family vacation in Colorado. We moved to Colorado a couple of years later and I avidly fished the small streams along the Peak to Peak highway until serving in the military and then moving to Montana to complete my education.
I took a break from fishing while my children were young. Then got serious again after fulfilling a childhood dream and learning to tie my own flies.
I took an early retirement from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks - where I worked, first as a white-tailed deer research biologist and, subsequently, in department administration - for more than 22 years. I am now self-employed as a natural resource management consultant, specializing in collaborative problem solving.
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Notes:
Tie in the shuck with the tag end forward, loop the tag end over the body after tying in the peacock. Select One of John's
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Note 1:
The tail on this fly is a variation of Al Beatty's wonder wing, without the wing and tied with one
feather horizontal to the hook shank. I take a few extra turns of thread at the bend when dressing the hook.
The feather is tied in at mid shank with three or four barbs from either side of the stem pulled toward the butt of the feather.
I hold the barbs on the near side of the hook, while wrapping toward the rear.
When the thread is pulled tight at the bend, the barbs naturally fan out. Note
2: I begin dubbing at the eye after tying in the post, partially dubbing the thorax and completing the abdomen, leaving the thread immediately behind the
post. Note 3:
I tie the hackle to the shank, immediately in front of the post and several thread turns up the post, leaving the hackle on the off side of
the hook and toward the rear. The hackle is 6 counter-clockwise wraps down the post (I try to leave enough bare stem so that the first wrap has
no barbs), with the last turn completed at the back of the post and on the near side of the hook.
I tie the hackle off with three counter-clockwise thread wraps around the post, pulling the hackle tight while pulling the first thread wrap tight, followed by two or three
thread wraps around the shank. Trim the hackle close, finish dubbing the thorax and whip finish at the eye. Select One of John's
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Note:
The trick to this fly is the post. Lay down a thread based immediately behind the eye.
Measure the post for length and tie in forward over the eye. Secure the trimmed end of the post with several X wraps and with a few wraps between the post and the eye.
Wrap the hackle around the shank between the peacock and the foam. Whip finish under the foam in order to keep the
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Hook:
#18 Mustad 3906.
Thread: 8/0 olive.
Abdomen: Wire (see notes).
Thorax: Peacock herl.
Notes: The wire for this pattern is three strands of fine wire - one each,
copper, gold and green - twisted together to form a single strand. 
Hook:
#18 Mustad 3906 with 2mm bead head.
Thread: 8/0 olive.
Tail: Pheasant tail.
Abdomen: Holographic tinsel, chartreuse.
Rib: Copper wire.
Thorax: Peacock.
Hackle: Grizzly hen neck, 2 turns.
Hook:
#20 Mustad 94859.
Thread: 8/0 gray.
Shuck: Beige Z-lon.
Abdomen: Thread.
Thorax: Peacock.
Wing: Beige Z-lon (see notes).
Hackle: Grizzly.
Hook:
#20 Mustad 94840.
Thread: 8/0 tan.
Tail: Dun hackle barbs (see note 1).
Post: White widow's web.
Body: Blended beaver and antron dubbing (see note
2).
Hackle: Grizzly, tied parachute style.
Hook:
#20 Mustad 94840.
Thread: 8/0 black.
Post: White closed cell foam (see note).
Shuck: Beige Z-lon.
Abdomen: Thread.
Rib: Peacock crystal flash.
Thorax: Peacock herl.
Hackle: Grizzly.
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