Onion skin dyed mallard tail and wing, grey rabbit ribbed with silver and blue Dun hackle. A nice dusk wet down here....

I have never seen nor read his book. So what’s his idea behind the fly being tied around the bend? Was he imitating a cased caddis or midge?

No idea....

anyone?

One of the family I’d not seen or heard of till a recent acquisition...

Something I picked up recently.
It’s not in the best of nick but I haven’t seen one before.
Maybe of some interest?

Great fly!

We have beautiful sunsets here at home across “the ditch” as the Tasman Sea is called. But it’s because of the bushfires over there in Aus. The smoke in the sky...A stark reminder every night....

Nice. What have you based the pattern on?

Thanks to my recent good score I **think** I’ve got all Gossamer colours now covered..... a few to get in wooden spools.. This is most of them.... 13B03FB6-64C8-4E73-BD78-302AB361E4EF.jpeg now to work on the Naples, Marabou collections.... I doubt in NZ there is a collection as complete as this...