Bill, what my poor camera work doesn't show is the black thread bodies on the little stones...Brown would be good for sure...

Last summer I watched Old Hat working on a new pattern that utilized a Cog de Leon wing and hackle. I don't know what he was attempting to create and got the impression it was a work in progress. I took a stab at it and it made me think of a couple applications. It might be a small caddis, a midge e...

This has been one of the most entertaining and interesting discussion I've found on the forum. My first born is an editor and has worked for publishers such as Bloomsbury and Chronicle Books, as well as free lance. Though most of her work was in fiction, she often commented about types of writers, a...

I've recently, thanks to a friend with an extensive library, been pouring over as much of the old literature as I can. For myself, it only provides interesting background in to the subject of the flies I've learned to tie and love to fish with. I appreciate the research given to the history and atte...

nowadays it probably includes Oskar Blues...fine craft brewery...

Welcome to the gang fishnkilts... I love the Stewart's Spider. I have fished it a lot on the Metolius and Crooked Rivers here in OR. It is particularly effective in the summer and early fall on the Metolius in super clear and shallow riffles. Hope you enjoy the forum as much as I have in the last ye...

nice Bill...you have any more patterns by Smurf... he's such a good guy...

those are just spectacular... I may have to get some of that gut....

the Vladi worm was one of the first flies my original teacher taught us to tie... never used them however...but I understand the panfish like em...

A friend is using medical catgut for nymph bodies... usually caddis pupa patterns... anyone had any experience with this stuff?