Stalcup’s Adult Green Drake

This week’s Throw Back Thursday Fly is Shane Stalcup’s Adult Green Drake.

I’m getting to ready to tie some Green Drake flies for an order and remembered I had seen Stalcup’s Adult Green Drake recently. The fly can be found in Shane’s book titled Mayflies “Top to Bottom”.

Here are a couple comments about the fly design:

• Body – It’s made using white floss and colored with yellow and olive Prismacolor markers.
• Rib – Brown micro-tubing is used and can be stretched to create a narrow or wide rib depending upon how much pressure is used while wrapping.
• Wings – The wings are made from Medallion sheeting.
• Hackle – Two hackles are used for this fly, one wrapped around each wing.

Other TBT flies from Shane Stalcup include:

• Stalcup’s Medallion Biot Green Drake Wet Fly
• Stalcup CDC Loop Wing Emerger

Stalcup created some wonderful fly tying videos and those videos can now be seen on my friend John Sherry’s Youtube NetKnots Fly Tying channel. I encourage you to take a look. 

Unfortunately, Shane passed away prematurely in 2011 at the age of 48.

Many of his flies can still be purchased in your local fly shop. You might give them a try. Watch a video or two of Shane tying his flies. You’ll see how “fishy” they really are.

Enjoy…go fish!