Wild Bill Stone variation. https://i.postimg.cc/rpyzF0Zf/10369112-755949041103816-6251944862815562701-n.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/pd0r9WgR/11084297-930164067015645-3035848373899658732-n.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/ydkd0qH9/f17f79bc-a88e-4ace-8f59-2b79c9fda197-zpssnbpaa8k.jpg Its that time of year when ...

Wow, looks like a caddis nymph I use. There are no more new ideas.

Oenophileangler wrote: ↑Sun May 15, 2022 3:38 pm But again, style frowns upon that.

Dale

The only style that matters. To me.

You seem to be your toughest critic. Macro photography has helped alot of us improve our tying skills. Ten years ago I did not want the hackle to go beyond the barb. Still, today , some patterns I tie , I stick to that standard. Normally I use hen hackle to achieve the shorter hackle length. When I ...

I like tying the hackle in first, then winding the thread through the hackle as I advance the thread forward. I like the idea of having the thread reinforce the hackle. Whether it be a spider or flymph.

Good looking fly pattern. I have a Dun colored hares mask as well. I will tye something along the lines of your example with it.

I am the opposite. I learned to hackle a pattern by tying the feather in first. Any other way feels weird to me.



Good job.

tworod wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 9:41 pm I'm a fan of the three techniques I was taught eons ago; upstream, downstream and across.

I wonder if adding split shot or beads would be considered
different techniques. For me its different.

Greg, I have to agree about the Wholesale Fly Company's hooks. Quality hooks at a bargain price. I use their beads as well.

Looks like a good pattern. I tie something similar, but I only have Gray and Pine Squirrel.

Bob, it is another arrow in my quiver, and I am happy to have it there. A HARD cross current movement has accounted for most of my 100 fish days. Most if not all of those fish, on occasion were 12 inch and smaller Browns. As Stalin once said "quantity has a quailty all its own". Not being ...