Ice PT (Pheasant Tail) Fly Tying Tutorial

The Ice PT is a must have in our Steelhead fly box. Tie these in various sizes and mix up the thorax with colours such as pink, blue, orange, and yellow. Add some lead free weighted wire if you need to get down deep.

RECIPE:
HOOK: Size 10 steelhead hook
THREAD: 70D in colour brown
TAIL: Pheasant Tail
ABDOMEN: Pheasant Tail
RIB: Small copper wire
THORAX: Burnt Orange Prism Ice Dub
WING CASE: Borwn scud back, topped with uv resin.

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[jeremylamovsky]

Over the years ive seen so many nymphs shine on local great lakes trout streams. Ive used spinning gear, centerpin and flyrod, these days mostly the centerpin. My dad isnt a barbarian like me, hes strictly fly 😂. Anyway this.past season we did well but couldnt get anything on nymphs aside from a few on black prince nymphs. On days i struggled, id put on a small mini foo jig. All black. Possibly the crudest bait ever uses for trout. Just a black jighead and a piece of feather which looks to just be saddle hackle. Little action, yet destroys steelhead in clear warer better than jigs and flys that look way better. So, im tying a bunch of larger black nymphs with 2-3XL shanks. We will see how they do. But i love your channel. I, like many of those i grew up with in my small town, messes up amd got into drugs. By some miracle i got out of it and fishing, especially for steelhead, got me through these first couple years (two years on 6/21/24) and tying jigs and flies have been a big help. Especially with me going back to school and needing to release stress

[HalfInsaneOutdoorGuy]

I've been watching too many perdigon tying tutorials....and that is why I ask this question, there they use like 3 tiny fibers of coq de leon...but here you use a CHUNK O FEATHER! for the tail...why use less? and why use more? And why do so many flies have tails? whats the purpose of a tail? Do all aquatic insects have huge tails or tiny tails?