Fly Tying a Baby Brown Trout with Jim Misiura

[@seanmooney3907]

Hey Jim, Whether it came from your head or you have seen it before, it is still a great looking pattern. You have tied so many flies you can't help but to be influenced by them. All the best to you and thanks for sharing. All the best . Sean

[@kenmartin1211]

Jim, Looks like it will catch fish. Nice Pattern.. As always great tutorial.

[@centurygaming8967]

amazing work

[@TheFlymanJim]

This is also a killer fly.

[@MikeWitmerNatureJournal]

Good one. i will make some. been getting into streamers lately. i know from firsthand experience that browns eat smaller browns. I think this pattern was originally made by a guy from around my area...forgot his name.Thanks Jim. Still waiting for them to send your backordered stuff.

[@TheFlymanJim]

Your comment on the originator just shows that it is hard to claim original designer of a fly. I thought this just came out of my head yesterday when I tied a half dozen of them.

[@MikeWitmerNatureJournal]

Jim-Did some more research and I found this about Sam Slaymaker who lived here in Lancaster County. His pattern is not at all the same as yours. No doubt yours is your own invention. His was more of a translucent bucktail streamer as i remember reading about it.... I am thinking that you have invented many flies from what I've seen and likely this is totally your own invention as well.. Interesting to read about his method of studying the actual fish i think. I like what to me appears as par marks in your fly. Also the shape of yours is more suggestive of a real trout . --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- According to Col. Bates, Jr., the author of “Streamers and Bucktails the Big Fish flies” the pattern was developed by Sam Slaymaker II of Gap, Pennsylvania. Sam’s theory behind the fly was that big trout eat little trout. This past summer that theory was reinforced. During our electro shocking, on the Wildcat, we found an eight inch Brook Trout with three baby trout down his throat. Sam went far beyond what the average fly tier would do in creating a new fly. First he procured a few small trout and placed them in a clear plastic prism. In the prism the trout could be viewed from all angles and the fish’s colors could be viewed separately. After careful observation Sam selected the materials that most resembled the natural colors. Using this method Sam went on to develop a series of three different patterns; the Little Brook Trout, the Little Brown Trout and the Little Rainbow Trout. The flies were very successful and garnered fame in several magazine articles and in a couple of books. In 1993 I was asked to tie the “Little Trout” series for Dick Stewart and Farrow Allen’s book “Flies for Trout” something that I am still very proud of. The beauty of the “Little Trout” series rivals that of the fancier feather wing streamers.