One of my all time favorites. Here is my iteration on a size 6 3906B. It is a fly that I find is the antithesis of the pressured trout/small fly advice you hear today. It is just as good of a fly on spring creeks as it is on freestones in larger sizes. I believe it represents a cranefly larvae and ...

nfrechet wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 6:52 am

just because a recipe call for limits on sizes, the tyers can choose to tie any size he wants

Yep.

No Lou, I had no idea. Thank you. You have been a wealth of information.

I always buy Dun hen hackles, yet I am always out of Brown.

I wonder why the recommendation only went down to 12? That could easily be tied in an 18 or 20 and would catch a lot of fish. This recipe to the Muskrat is the only one I have found. It came from the book "Masters of the Nymph. It was provided by a guide from Aspen Colorado. He started fishing...

I found this product on a Fly shops web page. Has anyone used it before? Does it have more feathers in the 20 to 16 range than the Herbert Miner, or Whiting Red Label capes/ My guess -- The fly shop is switching the name from Brahma to Bantam so it is harder to shop their hackle. Do they show it in...

Hey Wayne, If you are talking about the Whiting Bantam Hen cape in the light dun color, yes, I have used them .The cost is almost about half the price of a Hebert - Miner cape. In my opinion the quality is not the same, on some of the bantam capes, the tips of the feathers were broken . I use them ...

I found this product on a Fly shops web page. Has anyone used it before? Does it have more feathers in the 20 to 16 range than the Herbert Miner, or Whiting Red Label capes/

DOUGSDEN wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 8:38 pm
What else do you have on the menu for future patterns?
Dougsden

Pegged eggs.

Ron Eagle Elk wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 9:04 am Please don't tell me those gorgeous flies are size 22's.

Ha ha ha. No Ron, they are a size 12. I am working out of my comfort zone on such large hooks.