Peter Ross
by Kuba Chruszczewski
And here is another of my favorite wet flies. The pedigree is, of course, British - after all, that's where most of the successful designs that have survived the centuries were created. Mr. Peter Ross, a merchant from Killin in the Scottish county of Perthshire invented this fly in the 1890s. He fished with it in Scottish lakes ( lochs ), I - for lack of such in my country - use it successfully in rivers, as one of the best trout flies. Since it seems to me that Peter Ross imitates fry well, I usually make it on sizable hooks ( 8-2, sometimes with an extended shank) and lead it aggressively to imitate food that can move on its own. Alluring tail, silvery trunk, red accent ( injured, weakened fish?...), striped back - these features probably make Peter Ross so effective on trout, also on sea trout, while Americans successfully use it to catch salmonids there. It is worth trying to get nicely colored feathers of the gyre and make yourself this impressive and effective fly.
The tail of the fly is a few rays of tippets. To the hook I attach a silver flat lamette, and a silver wire. On the half of the straight part of the shank with white thread I form a base for the trunk from the lamette.
The back part of the torso made of lamé, the front part of red dubbing. The whole scrolled with silver wire.
I make a hedgehog from black soft hen feathers. As a base for the wings I tie another bunch of tippets.
I make the wings from strands of black-striped pewter pectoral feathers.
Materials needed to make the Peter Ross fly:
Striped pectoral feathers of the cyranid,
silver flat lamé,
silver wire,
A feather from the mane of a golden pheasant( tippet),
red dubbing,
wet fly hook.
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