Drag Queen

Friday night I was at the tying desk working on some variations of a couple of successful patterns for my fishing trip on Saturday. I was tying a pheasant tail that had a hot tag tail and had finished a couple that looked really great. I continued down that rabbit hole and started getting a little wild. 

I took what was a great pattern and starting rooting around the desk to find what else I had that might be interesting. Right away I found some pink beads. So I substituted the pink bead for the gold I had been using. I tied the fly the way I had been. When I got to the abdomen I substituted pink dubbing, whip finished the head and had a what the heck moment. Well, what the heck wasn’t what really ran through my mind..... that’s the PG version. To say I was disappointed was an understatement. This thing was ugly! All I could think was it looked like a Frenchie in drag, pink tail, pink boa, and a pink hat...

So I went back to tying my other version. 

I shoved all the flies I had tied into my pack including the ugly one.

I had some great success early on in the day with the good-looking ones and I lost a couple of them. I decided to tie on the one in drag. If I thought the others were good, this was way better. But I couldn’t shake the name. I showed the fly to Nick and said I think this thing is called the Drag Queen...

Hook- Fulling Mill Jig Force

Bead- Slotted Tungsten Pink 3.3mm

Lead- .015 8 Wraps

Thread- 14/0 FL Orange Veevus

Tail- 2 Strands Red Glo Brite Floss

Tail- 4 Pheasant Tail Fibers

Rib- BR Size Gold Wire

Body- 5 Pheasant Tail Fibers

Abdomen- Pink Czech Nymph Dubbing