Hey guys, I hear a lot of you speaking about the RS2. I've seen pics of it online, but were wondering how you guys tied them for putah. I wanna try tying that pattern and adding it to my putah box. Thanks.
I tie them using a size 20 or 22 Tiemco 100 hook and a 3769. 100 hook in the film 3769 to sink it. Tail is lemon wood duck or mallard flank wood duck color in a pinch. Taper the body with olive super fine dry fly dubbing olive to about 3/4 of the shank. Tie in light dun CDC or zlon wing, finish the head with more dubbing. There should be an even taper from the tail to the head. The taper should be even. Clip the wing short. Dubbing is very important on this fly as it makes the fly "slick" as it soaks up water! To taper the fly properly take a pinch of dry fly dubbing and stretch it thin like cotton candy and roll it on the thread. This fly hooked me on fly fishing and I still have the original fly!
I tie mine a little differently. Similiar hook, Tiemco 101 in 18 or 20 but have gone as big as 16. My color of choice is natural or LT brown dry fly dubbing. I use dun micro fibets for the tail and white webby feathers from a saddle hackle.
I learned the pattern from this link by the original creator of the pattern:
http://home.att.net/~ferenc/Tie-rs2.htm
It's a deadly pattern pretty much anywhere you use it.
Those are both great ties. The one I'm sending to the fly swap is elk or deer forked at the tail, olive turkey biot for the abdomen, light olive ice dubbing thorax and a loop wing of pearl crystal flash. Yummy!
