big fly....size 10
im going to look this up. thanks for the chat today about this fly

like the buggy thorax on these. what are you using?

thanks for sharing your beautiful version of this classic

Bill the reason I thought they weren't coated was the appearance of your body is irregular as opposed to the way most "perdition" flies look, evenly coated so as to appear smooth...

Bill thanks for the posts about hook angle..... Swentoski makes a pretty good argument and now we don;t have to buy a fish tank.. Wondering why you dont coat your perditions with either sally hansens or other resin, ie perdigons....I'm guessing you just consider it an unnecessary extra step.. Also.....

Thank you for sharing this info, I'm about to give a little presentation to our local tying group on the history of the "wingless wets" etc. This article will be very helpful.

bill,... I'll try and post pictures of the squirrel zonker sculpins Ive been fishing... hope i don't get banned from the flymph forum for such blasphemh

Bill your determination to keep this forum going by posting your flies is admirable.... I got in this morning with no issues as soon as I typed in the correct id..... Hope it keeps up...

great flies by the way... how did the zonker strips work out

I agree with joaniebo and variants replies,,, Smith's book is beautiful and despite the debate about his historical stuff, the patterns and recipes provide endless inspiration.

the water that Roadkill fished last week was swarming with anglers today... who knew this forum was so widely read? Consequently, we had to fish second choice water and found a healthy hatch of mayflies. Naturally, i was rigged to Euro nymph... and got no touches...so totally rerigged, put on the so...