Works for me too. But, I would switch to a different hook other than the one pictured unless you believe in hit and miss fishing! Well tied though!


Tom

Must be the late afternoon light Ray even the plover looks slightly Olive to me.

Tom

Hook. Daiichi 1480 size 14.
Silk. Copper. Pearsalls chestnut #32.
Body. Copper lightly dubbed with water rat. I used pine squirrel.
Hackle. Golden Plover marginal covert feather.

I was asked to post pictures of moor cock. It is the same bird as English Grouse. I had done so in the past but here they are.

Tom

Very nice find.

Tom

Found this in Rob Smiths book The North Country Fly from the list of Willie Whitaker 1901 and thought it would be an interesting tie. I will try it on the Beaverkill this spring. Hook. Daiichi 1480 size 12. Silk. Orange Pearsalls Gossamer. Body. Orange dubbed with watermouse. I used pine squirrel. W...

Carl that is spectacular. Can you please comment on the dressing.

Tom

Perhaps Greenwell!

Tom

I think you are 100 percent correct Ray that is a very good spot for that type of activity and in the faster water up above. That is stonefly water.

Tom

I was thinking about some of the lighter small caddis and stone flies found during the summer months here in the Catskills and ran across this pattern in A Handbook of North Country Trout Flies by Roger Fogg. I will give it a go this coming season. This pattern just screams translucency to me. Tom ;...