No, Hans, I understand that you've taken a generic model and applied exotic materials, but you're the one who called it simple, rather than simply exotic.

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Bruce, I started to copy the link, but it was simpler to just copy the recipes. NORTH COUNTRY SPIDERS IBF #10 1. cholcomb – Pritt's #26 Olive Bloa (variation) Hook: Orvis 1641 #14 Hackle: Hungarian Partridge, dyed olive Body: Pearsall Yellow Silk Head: Pearsall Orange Silk 2. Skunkaroo - #12 Pritt's...

at first glance it does seem like a simple wet, but this recipe doesn't say simple to me. I've never even heard of an Ashima hook, I don't have any Marten and probably won't encounter any Capercaillie barbs any time soon. I did finally pick up some Whiting Coq de Leon, medium pardo hackle the other ...

Hans,

These are fantastic pics. And its a great looking set of flies. Great swap.

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Johnno,

Those are great looking. Nice combo.
I'm going to have to break down and try these hair hackles.
Maybe Mike Connor was right, we might need to make hair hackles the next IBF swap.

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Thanks for the kind words. I can imagine based on the myriad of colors between medium to darker dun wings, brown fore legs and cream hind legs, one could come up with a lot of variations for the materials used. I think this fly is a version of most of the flymphs I tie composition wise, with a size ...

I tied up what I thought would be an Isonychia Flymph last year. It seems like the Iso is one of those flies that can be more complex in its coloration than is usually depicted. I would probably refine this further, but it was a start. It would have to be a drowned dun/cripple/lost emerger as they d...

Nice execution on the hair hackle. That turned out very nicely. Its hard to guage from the pic, how stiff that hair hackle might be. Care to describe it a little further?

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Hans, No, a stiffer halo shape makes good sense. Its a departure from the traditional patterns where very sparse fine dubbing it used along the silk body, and it provides a different effect from a body dubbed of finer material for sure. I tie wingless wets, with silk bodies, metal bodies, quill bodi...

So is your contention that the coarser dubbings do better job of producing that halo effect? And can you describe what you mean by the halo effect achieved by using the coarser dubbing relative the finer dubbings like mole or muskrat? I know you can achieve the effect using both. And my preference i...