The contrasting coloration were a key feature to this design. His first Stimulator had a golden yellow olive body and a orange thorax. The tail hairs were stacked uniformly but the wing hairs were not, to give the wing a more fuller appearance.
Jim's design had a longer thorax where the thorax and abdomen were about equal lengths, similar to the natural. Both flies used a Brown Saddle Hackle for the thorax. This fly is still used today for Salmon Fly, Skwala, and Golden Stone imitations. The Sofa Pillow was subsequently modified by Pat Barnes to the Improved Sofa Pillow in the 1950's by going with a Deer or Elk Hair wing, Deer or Elk Hair tail, and palmering a brown saddle hackle through the body as a ribbing, which he clipped. One remarked, "It's as big as a Sofa Pillow". It was named by a group of Texans that Pat was guiding when they were amazed at the size of the fly. A brown hackle was wrapped in front of the wing. His inspiration came from an earlier fly, the Sofa Pillow, designed by Pat Barnes in the 1940's, with an orange floss body, a red squirrel tail wing and a red duck quill tail. He first named it the "Fluttering Stonefly", then changed it to "Stimulator" after a New York City Punk band that was very popular at the time. Jim indicates that he designed the fly around 1980 while he lived near the Musconetcong River in New Jersey. Randall Kaufmann is often credited with the pattern design, however, it may be the design of Jim Slattery of West Yellowstone, MT. Notes: These flies were initially designed to specifically imitate adult stoneflies. Thorax Hackle: Grizzly Hackle over thorax.Abdomen Hackle: Ginger or Silver Badger Hackle, Palmered.
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