Holy moly!!! That is awesome that you did a side by side test on them. It never fails to amaze me that sometimes it's a tiny detail that can make a pattern produce.

Thank you for sharing your results.

That is a gorgeous skin!!!!

Holy smokes it took forever to log in. I do a little night time , lake fishing when the mosquitos allow. I am very interested in in the Lumo beads. I have a lot of luminescent thread. Would it be possible to use this with or instead of the beads to achieve similar results? Excellent fly pattern, Bill.

RickA wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:48 pm Now there's a nice pair of twins in your net!
I plan to twist up a few of those patterns and might call them 101's

Rick, that would be an awesome name!!!

Thanks folks. They are basic fly tying 101 patterns, but they have been effective the past few days.

I hope you are skipping to the river. The flies are awesome!

Thank you folks!!

I still have not fished.

Thank you , Ron.
Yes, each fly has a single piece of small mylar as a wing (hot spot?)

I have had three days off in a row and have not fished once. The BWO's are coming out on my local rivers. I threw size 18 Olives together. Hopefully, I will fish them soon. Probably with an upstream approach.

My memory isn't perfect, so I might have posted something in the past about the book called "ORANGE OTTER" written by Christopher Knowles. The book details the life, fishing and fly tying of Rev. Edward Powell of Munslow, Shropshire. I believe that the Reverend caught so many trout that h...