Nice.
Do you have any issues with the gape being reduced by the keel?

Nice.
Flies don’t need to be show quality.
I think particularly for nymphs flymphs and soft hackles….
Shabbier the better..

I’d say at a guess it’s privately published Ray.

The secret is the pinch where the quills are in between your thumb and forefinger on top of the hook. The thread goes around and down slightly in the pinch, then under the hook. When it’s all set, pull firmly up. That “should” get a nice wing with the quills flattened on top of each other creating t...

My brown quills are crappy. Bad workman blames his tools, but I can do better

A fly that has done well on evening hatches down here swung down and across onto rising fish…

Grey thread, CdL tail and hackle, fine flat opal rib, grey rabbit / Antron body and a Spur Winged Plover primary quill wing. Sizes 12 - 14

If you know your Blackadder, you’ll know the hackle…….
(You Americans probably won’t have a clue but the English amongst you should…)
Recently successful on evening hatches in size 14

Yes that is a useful book. Along with the two hackle books……..

Damn that USPS postal ban to NZ!

I’d love that grizzly olive hen…. And the grizzly copper olive.