looking for post on yellow jackets

deaddrift · Member

looking for post on yellow jackets

JT · Senior Member

Here is the Bono's reference to the yellow jacket fly.� I have actually seen the fly, but I don't know if he is selling it or able to yet.� He was in the process�of selling the pattern to Umpqua.

http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=65954&p=3&topicID=8870567

deaddrift · Member

thx jt
just looking for a pattern or pic,ill tye my own rendition.
heard there killer at altitude
gonna be high up this weekend and wanna give er a go
thx
dbl d

ps ,now that yur back read the just a thought bono post we were waiting for yur return so we could have a get together, so we all need to plan a gig

Otter · Senior Member

Burk also has a yellow jacket pattern. If you go to American flyfishing.com you can take a look. The fly appears to made from black and yellow dubbing and has feather wings. When I saw the yellow jacket swimming in the water it was disturbing the water quite a bit. It was like a turboprop underwater. I guess that is why the flies I have seen have a big brown hackle.

bonefish1 · Veteran Member

Did Bono ever sell the pattern to Umpqua? I read the original post and I want one! Maybe he could make it available to the Bono Forum fisherman!

WytEurp · Senior Member

http://www.blueflycafe.com/product/Yellow_Jacket/Terrestrials

http://www.blueflycafe.com/product/Wasp/Terrestrials

deaddrift · Member

thx
wyatt
there good ,asI am still looking and will let ya know when I find or send pics of my own design
cheers
dbl d

bono · Master Fly Fishing Guide

Sorry ya'll for not responding sooner but I've been fishing and hunting in Montana;Idaho and Wyoming.Ironically my biggest fish of the trip was a huge 24" brown on the Madison river caught on my yellowjacket fly, fished sumerged,I also caught a very nice rainbow on the same fly but that was the only two fish I caught on that pattern though.I did use it on the Firehole river as a dry and caught nothing,but I saw very few yellow jackets in the area.This fly really seems to work where yellow jacket prevail and doesn't work worth a squat in areas where these little critters do not exist or during the time of year when they are not around.As far as the availability of the fly is concerned I should know from Umpqua sometime within the next month if they will buy the pattern or not.And to be totally honest I probably will not sell the pattern myself because they are sort of hard to tie and they take me forever,sorry!