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Little Dark Watchet

Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 11:11 am
by upstatetrout
Tied size 16 hook and jackdaw hackle



Image

Re: Little Dark Watchet

Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 12:09 pm
by tie2fish
The hackle looks really good from what I can see, especially for jackdaw, but you need to crop the photo some to enlarge the image.

Re: Little Dark Watchet

Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 9:28 pm
by letumgo
Lovely rendition of the dark watchet. Great body work and hackling. That's a keeper!

Re: Little Dark Watchet

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 7:54 am
by upstatetrout
Thanks Ray.I am working hard at learning to tie North country flies and aquiring the materials.So far it has been great fun.

Tom

Re: Little Dark Watchet

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2018 3:15 am
by Bishthefish1
Hi Tom
I Would be happy to use that for the Iron Blue Duns here in Yorkshire!
Alistair

Re: Little Dark Watchet

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2018 8:26 am
by upstatetrout
I appreciate that Alistair.

Tom :)

Re: Little Dark Watchet

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2018 12:42 pm
by letumgo
Bishthefish1 wrote:Hi Tom - I Would be happy to use that for the Iron Blue Duns here in Yorkshire! Alistair
I think that is the ultimate compliment! Only thing better, might be the "endorsement" of a trout pulling on the end of your line. :D ;)

Re: Little Dark Watchet

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:04 pm
by tjd
Tom,

Great looking soft hackled flies!

So much fun to tie and fish them...

Best,

Tim

Re: Little Dark Watchet

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 12:46 pm
by upstatetrout
Thank you Tim after a long lay off from tying I. am enjoying myself....

Tom

Re: Little Dark Watchet

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 2:54 am
by Bishthefish1
letumgo wrote:
Bishthefish1 wrote:Hi Tom - I Would be happy to use that for the Iron Blue Duns here in Yorkshire! Alistair
I think that is the ultimate compliment! Only thing better, might be the "endorsement" of a trout pulling on the end of your line. :D ;)
You could always send one over for me to try ;) :lol: