Greenwells, a few from the family

[Otter]

This is exellent!

Question about Mike Connors softwing:
why are wings perpendicular on hook? Is that something to do with movement of fly under water... or with looks... or it is somethong else?

Designed for upstream dead drift work, off course the correct twitch at the right time does no harm.

This is the first one I ever tied, based on 4 lines of written instructions from Mike, he vouched that it was tied as he had intended, no more can I tell you other than I have caught some nice trout on it and variations of it.



another example



these are quite subtle little fellas, and my camera work does not really do them justice.

[Ruard]

Do you know the litle book of John Reid: clyde style flies?

Here are two scans:





Greeting

[Otter]

Thanks for sharing that Ruard.

The softwings do indeed seem to have a lot in common with the clyde style, dry ,they may look quite similar , but subsurface, the soft fibres of the undercoverts will behave much differently than the stiffer secondaries as described in your post.

[William Anderson]

Otter, these are great to see. Nice group of flies and a nice take on a conversation that usually gets overtaken with body color/wax/silk combo's. The styles are very nice.

Ruard, the snippet from Reid is spot on. This fly pattern looks great for a lot of imitations.

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[kacbo]

Otter, Ruard,

Thank You a lot!