This is a Little Yellow Sally, a yellow stonefly imitation — a great pattern for the McKenzie and Willamette Rivers on summer evenings. If you really want this fly to float high, heavily wrap the hackle. If you want it to lay flat, you can clip the bottom hackles off. You can also tie this fly with a red spot on the back end to represent an egg sac.
Little Yellow Sally (traditional)
Hook: TMC 100 size 16
Thread: Yellow, Uni 8/0
Body: Yellow dubbing
Wing: Bleached elk hair
Hackle: Ginger or cream
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1 Jim Holmes // May 30, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Good video - big help to beginning fly tiers like me. I noticed that this fly is sometimes done with yellow foam as well.
2 Bob Hebert // Jun 13, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Good pattern and easy (little sally). Looks different from what the local fly ‘expert’ ties but does look like the real thing. Wil try it on the stream (acid test) early next week. Thanks for providing this info for the average Joe.
Bob
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