Kent's Baby Rainbow....?

[MarkK]

Anyone have a decent picture - and pattern - for the fly "Kent's Baby Rainbow"?

Hairy Fairy Flies used to have them, but I haven't seen them for ages, so thought I'd give it a go tying myself.

TIA.

Jan I remember the fly quite well - think it was something along these lines, although I don't have any left to take a pic of:

Hook: Long Shank Streamer
Tail: Pink hackle fibres
Body: Flat silver tinsel with and over-wrap of silver oval tinsel
Wing: Bronze Mallard over olive and very little blue squirrel tail (or something similar) with a strand of pink floss down either side
Throat hackle: Red

It was tied along the lines of a traditional streamer, and I remembr being puzzled by it as real baby rainbows don't have the pink line. It still caught plenty of fish, though.

[chris williams]

Thanks for the reply guys...

In order:

1) Nicholas - also can't find any info on the web, closest thing is this one called a "Marvin":

http://www.flytyingforum.com/pattern6611.html

2) Dave - you got Michael's email? HF don't seem to have a website, and I while I found an email (@intekom...) dunno if it's valid.

3) Chris - waddaya mean you have a digital camera and can't work it??

4) Clarias - see Byron's comment, they seem to work here!

5) Chris - see Byron's comment, they seem to work here!

6) Byron - I was in Raynes' shop yesterday, will go look again, must have missed the buggers! Wildfly have some, but they are not the right colours....

7) Nicholas - good idea that one, again similar to the "Marivin" using the mallard flank across the top.

Thanks again guys!

Digital camera - I'm still 19th century, not even 20th century, let alone 21st!!

Re fly working - it probably just reinforces what a lousy flyfisher I am! Seriously I think it's one of those confidence things, like how I've never caught a fish on a Peter Ross. Just for fry I've a couple of other imitations I've a bit more faith in, as I mentioned no disrespect to Barry Kent, he was at the forefront of innovative flies a few years back as Mike Petersen will readily attest!

[JanK]

Jan I remember the fly quite well - think it was something along these lines, although I don't have any left to take a pic of:

Hook: Long Shank Streamer
Tail: Pink hackle fibres
Body: Flat silver tinsel with and over-wrap of silver oval tinsel
Wing: Bronze Mallard over olive and very little blue squirrel tail (or something similar) with a strand of pink floss down either side
Throat hackle: Red

It was tied along the lines of a traditional streamer, and I remembr being puzzled by it as real baby rainbows don't have the pink line. It still caught plenty of fish, though.

Thanks Mark - that sounds the ticket.

[nicholas]

Digital camera - I'm still 19th century, not even 20th century, let alone 21st!!

Re fly working - it probably just reinforces what a lousy flyfisher I am! Seriously I think it's one of those confidence things, like how I've never caught a fish on a Peter Ross. Just for fry I've a couple of other imitations I've a bit more faith in, as I mentioned no disrespect to Barry Kent, he was at the forefront of innovative flies a few years back as Mike Petersen will readily attest!

Chris is this the same Barry Kent,

http://home.att.net/~kholm/PHLYTYING/PPTK83.html

[JanK]

Chris is this the same Barry Kent,

http://home.att.net/~kholm/PHLYTYING/PPTK83.html

One and same, Nicholas.

This is Ken Holm's site for his "fishing flies on stamps" (been meaning to do my own version, as I have a much more extensive fishing flies stamp collection than Ken )

More info on Barry is here:

http://home.att.net/~kholm/PHLYTYING/PPTKhistory.html

and

http://www.fishingflystamps.com

(there's a couple of email addresses for Barry hidden in the 2nd site, I have emailed Barry, but awaiting a response...)

[chris williams]

Yes I've got those beautiful Transkei fishing stamps mounted on my wall with the actual flies also below them - It was something High Flies did I think in the early 1980s?