Tiger Beetle
After the beetle fishing/tying posts, I had a few e-mail exchanges with several FF&W readers, including Satoshi, who was fishing in the Yellowstone area last month. From what Satoshi reported, fishing was tough, but the indicator beetle he chose to use made following the drift easy.
The Tiger Beetle (Satoshi’s personal tie shown above), is a Blue Ribbon Flies pattern, and uses Blue Ribbon’s Tiger Strips. BRF has been a rather regular summertime stop since I was a kid, but I’ve not stayed in West Yellowstone for the last couple of years so haven’t wandered through like usual. The BRF patterns seem to be performing well (and the strips make it easy to tie “racing stripe” types of flies), so I suppose I’ll need to order a sheet or two of foam and get tying.
If any other FF&W readers have been using/buying/tying similar patterns, go ahead and post a description and/or link in the comments.
Thank you Jason, I am a bit shy though….
This tiger-strip is very visible for its smaller sizes and even for foam ant patterns. And very effective so far.
If someone visits my blog, there are nice looking SJ Worms and obscure tiny midge soft-hackles from my recent fising report…hope that covers up my messy tying! (just kidding.)
The drawing for T-shirts is Yamame, is that right? I like its parr marks.
Satoshi—I like the well-integrated stripe and look forward to trying it side-by-side with other indicator beetles (and ants). With the racing stripe, it’s also a great pattern for anyone who like muscles cars…
And yes, the shirt design is a Yamame. They are such a beautiful trout, and I felt that in outline form, the fish looked enough like a lot of other trout that it works for my first tee offering. I do plan (well, only if there is enough interest) in doing a whole series of trout (and some other fish) for shirts like the one shown below.
Nice stuff, thanks for sharing!