But one I had already tied--but not fished--with simply a golden pheasant tail and a mallard wing, and hackle in chartreuse instead of white, fooled a small rainbow on its first cast:
flickr video: Small Rainbow
I also hooked into two others before this, on a #16 hook of the same pattern, but lost them. Had two other bumps. It is funny--I changed because I figured I was flubbing the takes. And yet the past few sessions I went down to #16 and did better. Who knows.
Then I changed pools and on the 2nd cast got into a really pretty native:
flickr video: Pickerel
It was classic! As I was stripping my fly through the water to prepare for another cast, a wake appeared out in the middle of the pool and so I kept the fly in the water, moving towards the bank, until the fish took it. And it really swallowed. I was lucky I didn't gut hook it. You can't see the fly because it took it tail first and the head of the fly is over 1/4" aft of the left corner of the mouth.
Interestingly when I first arrived and started walking down to the stream, I saw that I disturbed something along the shallows that swam out to deeper water. It was probably this pickerel.
Here's the fly--the top one in this photo (you can see this in a previous post as well, with all the candycanes):
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