Variant recently gifted me a bit of 42 gauge wire, partridge hooks, and pheasant tail that measures the full 2.5 inches. Working with the wire is a _itch and having Oliver Edwards video tying the fly does make it easier sort of..Hopefully, I won't use up all the wire before I am able to tie a decent...

I'll speak up for Roadkill on this one....doubt he's checking the forum too regularly from the South of France....Just another of the hundreds of flies from Roadkills fertile mind. Plus, on any given day on the water, he'll tie on at least a dozen different ones to test. If you read this Bill, I hop...

Yep it is that time of year here too... In Dave Hughes's book "Fishing the Four Seasons", he recommends swinging the red fox squirrel nymph with the arrival of the Western March Browns. We've been seeing the beginnings of the hatch out here, but just haven't been able to hit the river at t...

Wayne... I'm with you... just down and across doesn't always get it... multiple current seams... boulders... etc water depth...throwing in mends to extend the swing, slow down the swing, etc to match the conditions are all in play... There are so many different techniques for swinging its hard to ke...

Everyone who participated in the most recent fly swap was graced with one of Newriverspey's Coachman Variant. Its a really unique variant which must have come from his fertile imagination. I've not been able to find a version of the Coachman that incorporates some of his touches. So, what is one to ...

Ron - Please post pictures of your finished flies and provide updates when you get a chance to fish it. I love this kind of adaptation. Well as the saying goes... man plans, god laughs.... our stretch of the Middle Deschutes upon which the March Browns were just getting going depends upon irrigatio...

As my old friend back in Texas would say... that's a tasty morsel...

Ray... the body is white Semperfli nano silk colored with Copic marker "copper"... it is wound on the hook, tied in a BWO died turkey biot... then covered the thread with uv resin, wrapped the biot and set the resin... go to Ohlie's flies and check out his "u midge" and you'll se...

Ron - Please post pictures of your finished flies and provide updates when you get a chance to fish it. I love this kind of adaptation. wish I could get better photos...but since March Brown's are in full swing here...these three will get put to the test on the Middle Deschutes next week slight var...

Ray... I'm going to steal parts of this fly and one of Ohlie's flies "the c midge" and come up with a variant. I'm using Ohlie's body of a herl imbedded in resin with the white nano silk colored with a marker; and will use your peacock thorax and wing.... It will be closer to your fly with...