Mike!
Thanks for posting these words!.. No horn blowing there; simply what so many need to hear but will sit there and squeeze their buttocks together with reading it!
Love your "straight out" words. I feel grounded in realizing how much I have to learn!
FliTrap

Old Hat! Thanks for bring this to the board! I have seen pics a time or two with this! Just in looks, I would guess that this style of fly would hold its hackle shape a bit better in the swing of fast water, not otherwise collapsing around the body! The slim profile should carry deeper in the upper ...

If it Swims in Missouri water, I have caught nearly all on wet flies! Some of the best fishing beyond Trout is Crappie, Bluegill, all of the bass, including hybrid strippers! Its an 8wt and size 1/0 hook type adventure but great times for sure! The fun of wingless wet flies has even brought me a few...

Here is a good reference for some of the flies, noted, including the Greenwell's as detailed in Edmonds & Lee - that is with split wings.
http://www.flyfishinghistory.com/edmond ... tterns.htm
Have Fun!
FliTrap

Hans! Still again, I see wealth in the method you present, using the same materials (thread + dubbing) as first a rib, then more intensely as the thorax! Keeping it simple with materials and presentation! Though, the detail seen through your photography, carries it through with "spot on" f...

Hans!
Great use of materials to bring out the detail you were looking for!
So, how many ways can you spin a spider web? LOL
FliTrap

Again, I have to say... the education continues! Thanks for the links. The information is so useful and if not shared in this manner, I most likely would have never found it on my own! I'll be playing with yet more and different ways to develop my fly tying! And by the way, the rest of that book ref...

Now, I'm laughing, for I live in the "Show Me State"! Really, though, you all did a fine job to explain a process for which I have no experience! In all my tying, I work with either the dubbing loop method or one of several "touch dubbing methods", including a method of applying ...

Can any one provide some explanation of this method of dubbing?
I's see it note a few times and wondering the method and benefit!
Thank, in advance!
FliTrap

Mike! Great reading your words! So many with whom I have fished with, or simply near, can be observed fighting what comes natural to others! I truly agree that there are days; sometimes only moments, that 'the click' happens; all comes together. The true magic is realizing the parts of the whole! Kn...