Shucks! (a trigger?)

[col]

Was wanting to kno what material others are using for shucks for upwinged flies, Poly yarn, etc. John Goddard used blond fur  (what is it , who makes it?) in his klinkhammer style fly. Other suggestions were things like summer duck.Anyway  i'm looking to improve on poly yarn ,what do you use?

[Fishtales]

I used Crystal Flash on my suspender nymph. I would suggest anything light and translucent. I have used Nymph Glass in the past too.

[Clan Ford]

Hi Col,

I currently use poly yarn, not found anything better.  In the past have experimented with plastic, monofilament, all sorts of flashy stuff and feathers.  I just thin the yarn down to an appropriate size and sometimes tie a wee knot in it.

Norm

[Wildfisher]

Perhaps the old golden pheasant crest used on the older patterns worked as a shuck? Can’t think what else it might have been taken for

[haresear]

Poly for me.

I noticed a poly-yarn "tail" made a big difference to my sedges, despite the fact that sedges have neither a tail nor keep a shuck (they hatch so quickly). The yarn" tail" was in fact probably a fair representation of a wing.
If you look at a sedge from below, it is long and slim and the body occupies only the front third of the sillhouette. The rest is the wing and translucent.

Alex

[haresear]

perhaps a balloon caddis with a poly yarn tail is the answer

Col, I found it (the poly yarn tailed job) really effective on the Lanarkshire Avon a couple of years ago.

Alex

[haresear]

A cinnamon sort of shade is what I have been using.

Alex

[haresear]

Posted in wrong place . Moved.

[Clan Ford]

Hi Col,

Yes, you've got the idea of the knot spot on.

Norm

[haresear]

Looks lovely Col, but it also looks like it may be a one-cast fly (leader twist).

If you can solve the spinner (but not a leader spinner) problem, I would be most interested. I have ideas, but they involve CDC.

Let us know how it goes.

Alex