Steve,

I love the pattern and will have to tie it and your Sparkling Sedge SH Emerger and fish them off in different light
or water conditions this spring.

Your Upper Columbia Flybox contains some other gems as well!

Gorgeous tie!!

Nice flies! What size are they?

OK, I'll have to tie a Shoo Fly Pie!

Those look like superb fake bait to me!!

Beautiful fly! I think it would also swing well in the middle of Pale Duns!

Carl, I can't resist the Darkside. :twisted: The author of the article about Egan watched him pull over 60 fish out of his assigned beat on the Crooked in 3 hours when he was qualifying for the US Flyfishing Team. That weakened my will and I have to try some of his creations. :roll: I will fish off ...

Ray, Here is a Mallard Spider tied on a Mustad 9672 # 10... https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4838/46340789551_439ba4f831_z.jpg IMGP5700 by William Lovelace , on Flickr My dad was not a flyfisher, with one exception. Occasionally he would borrow my rod and head out on the stream with the 3 streamers he...

Nice Fly!
It reminds me of a flashier version of Mallard spiders that I have fished since I was a kid.

This is my soft hackle version of Lance Egan's Rainbow Warrior nymph. https://flymphforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=8160 https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4814/44513940520_64b26ea80d_z.jpg IMGP5699 by William Lovelace , on Flickr I use a Dai Riki 070 #14 & omit the wing case to tie this in the round. I ...