Popsicles

[Pat AV]

Hey guys I am a newby fly tier and someone was nice enough to teach me how to tie these great flies. I am having lots of fun playing around with color combos.

Some of my favorites so far for chum have been purple/pink and chartruse/pink.

Do any of you guys mind sharing some of your favorite color combo's for popsicles and what applications you use them in?

Thanks!

Pat

[phearless]

Hi Pat,
the combos are endless.
On the Bulkley a Blue Moon is Light blue over black..... deadly.
Try a Winters Hope popsicle... Very nice.

[Pat AV]

....you got that right! That is why I figured a topic like this could help narrow it down a bit for us rookie tiers.

Thanks for the Blue Moon idea, sounds good. What type of colors is the "Winters Hope" done up with?

[phearless]

Yellow
Orange
blue
purple
You could put a touch of olive between the orange and blue,
or a very sparse overwing of bucktail or polar etc.

The original has a few strands sandwiched between the orange and yellow hackle tip wings.

A very effective fly.
Tie one up and post a pic for us.

[phearless]

Try this Pat.

[Oakey]

Heh Phearless

I love the Winter Hope as a conventional fly - never have seen it as a popsicle

sounds very interesting

Thanks

Oakey

[Jim Dingsdale]

Here you go.
I call them Featherdusters and the coho and chum really go after them.
They are made with marabou wrapped like a hackle.

[Pat AV]

...thanks for the good ideas guys. Don't have any blue yet so I will pick some up and try that out, looks like a good combo Fred.

Jim, nice look popsicles as well!

[knotnot]

Hi Jim

Is there anything on the hook under the marabou ?
Any sort of tinsel or flash or even lead?


thanks
knotnot

[phearless]

Generally there is nothing under the marabou.
I will sometimes put silver or gold tinsel under the marbou.
It just makes me feel good.

A few strands of flash in the fly somewhere doesn't hurt either.