{"id":4062,"date":"2019-10-21T04:32:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T04:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/?p=4062"},"modified":"2019-10-21T04:33:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T04:33:49","slug":"variegated-sun-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/2019\/10\/variegated-sun-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Variegated Sun Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" src=\"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kelson_variegated_sun_fly_two-web-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kelson_variegated_sun_fly_two-web-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kelson_variegated_sun_fly_two-web-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kelson_variegated_sun_fly_two-web-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kelson_variegated_sun_fly_two-web.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two variants of The Variegated Sun Fly registered on <a href=\"http:\/\/flypattern.org\/search?s=variegated\">flypattern.org<\/a>: one by <a href=\"http:\/\/flypattern.org\/authors\/george-m-kelson\/book\/the-salmon-fly\/pattern\/the-variegated-sun-fly\">Kelson<\/a> and one by <a href=\"http:\/\/flypattern.org\/authors\/thomas-edwin-pryce-tannatt\/book\/how-to-dress-salmon-flies\/pattern\/variegated-sun-fly\">Pryce-Tannatt<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both of the variants have the same basic features: body of divided berlin wool, black front-hackle and a topping wing.  Kelson calls for Macaw in tail and for horns, but here I use blue swan instead, not as stiff as Macaw, and not quite the color, but for these flies (that go into the fishing box) I wanted to use up some 2nd grade topping and try to tie up some quick and fishable patterns without the need for all the materials called for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tied on <a href=\"http:\/\/flyhooks.org\/partridge\/m2-heavy-salmon-single\">Partridge M2 #1\/0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" src=\"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kelson_variegated_sun_fly-web-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kelson_variegated_sun_fly-web-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kelson_variegated_sun_fly-web-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kelson_variegated_sun_fly-web-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kelson_variegated_sun_fly-web.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Kelson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" src=\"http:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/tannatt_variegated_sun_fly-web-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/tannatt_variegated_sun_fly-web-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/tannatt_variegated_sun_fly-web-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/tannatt_variegated_sun_fly-web-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/tannatt_variegated_sun_fly-web.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Pryce-Tannatt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two variants of The Variegated Sun Fly registered on flypattern.org: one by Kelson and one by Pryce-Tannatt Both of the variants have the same basic features: body of divided berlin wool, black front-hackle and a topping wing. Kelson<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[464,494],"class_list":["post-4062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salmon","tag-kelson","tag-pryce-tannatt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4071,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions\/4071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyfisher.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}