Stillwater Sam

A friend of mine, Sam, was kind enough to help me tie one of his patterns he uses on stillwater. Since I am not sure what he calls it, I creatively dubbed it Stillwater Sam - I hope you don' mind, Sam. Below are my takes on his pattern and I am excited to get out and try them. As the pattern is not my own I don't feel comfortable posting the recipe, but you can get a pretty good idea:

Cool Flies

Vasies Pupa Pattern by Lucian Vasies

Came accross this fly at SwittersB's blog and thought it was very interesting. I have not seen a fly with a braided flash back wing case before and I like the ribbing idea - very cool. Fact of the matter is the whole pattern was foreign to me, check out the tutorial:

http://www.flytying.ro/masa_muscarului/article.php?id=329

I can't read any of it, as it is Romanian, but you can figure it out.

Here's the recipe...you're on your own for the translation.

Materiale: Carlig Caddis #14 Daiichi D1130
Ata: de corp Devaux galbena si 17/0 UniThread
Coada: barbule de cocos de Leon sau cocos indian
Subcorp: ata de corp Devaux
Corp: lurefil oliv
Torace: dubbing super nymph sau din ureche de iepure amestecat cu super sintetic nymph dubbing
Gheb: barbule de fazan sau pearl scudback
Greutate: bila de tungsten de 3mm