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Mataura mayfly,

Here is a Tenkara P&O tied with Kinkame 50 silk to bulk up the body as we discussed in the Starling and Purple thread.



Thanks for the inspiration I have several more colors to tie when I get some more hooks!

I have no doubt it is spectacular.
But, owing to something I do not fully understand, I cannot view your image of this or any other fly you have posted nor your avatar.
I am guessing it has something to do with where you store your online photographs and my firewall or security settings. Only seems to pick on yours, every other image on the forum is fine and I can see them normally, just seems to be your personal photographs and not ones you have linked to.
Bit of a headache, but I will try my best to put it right and report back.

So, did you order your Kinkame silk from Britex?

Roadkill, Howdy;

Your pix and avatar show-up for me, very excellent looking fly Roadkill-san.

hank

"So, did you order your Kinkame silk from Britex?"

I picked out the colors in person on a trip before you got your silk. Sorry about the photos on your computer, they come from another US fishing board server.

They have a really good selection of colours up there on the 4th floor.
When I was there it was kind of an impulse thing and I did not have a tying colour chart to compare colours, so I stuck with the obvious of black, brown, purple, red, white, grey, yellow, gold in a couple of shades and a couple of very nice olive shades.
Since then, a lot of wonderful flymph friends have sent over genuine Pearsall silks and the Kinkame has taken a bit of a back seat. Personally, I was using a working thread to hold the initial tag end of the silk to the shank, using the working thread to carry the silk to the bend, working thread back to thorax/hackle position and wrap the silk up in touching turns, tying off at the thorax or behind the hackle. Thus only a single shank wrap of the silk made a slimmer body and using the working thread made for a finer head/tie off of the finished fly.

No need to apologise, it will be something at my end that is blocking things. Something like firewall or antivirus settings.......

Bill, what a great looking kebari. Just a beautiful taper and the hackle tones are a nice compliment to the silk. I hope to do more Tenkara style fishing this season. This would be my first fly of choice.

Well done, Mr. Kill.

Mm,

I picked up a similar color assortment as well. I also usually tie it in with a working thread of Pearsall's Gossamer. The first P&Os I tied with the Kinkame I wrapped just as you did. Then I changed by starting at the catch point with just tight turns of the heavy silk toward the bend and returning to the catch with wider open turns of the Kinkame as a rib. This way there is no overwrap of the Pearsall down and back just the added thickness of the rib.