Interesting reading and lively discussion is sure to follow. I'm in no position to judge either Mr. Smith's or Mr. Herd's writings, but I do enjoy reading both.
On that note, in the same blog noted by Mr. Smith, there is an interesting post about John Atherton and Coq de Leon.

Welcome... I appreciate your handle...as a transplant from the coast of Texas, I've cast a few flies at those delicious specs..

great flies by the way,

that one will kill on the upper Met this fall...

thanks for the encouragement... the hackles were done in a dubbing loop after gathering a clump in the new Swiss Clamp...I left a bit of the underfur on the clump to add a little depth..

Roadkill gifted me a nice piece of that Wolverine he posted about recently. After playing around with it a bit, I've come up with a couple flies to put it to use... These are both March Browns... stripped peacock quill bodies, Roadkill's spectral blend thorax, and Wolverine hair hackles. I think I'l...

what mike said....

Bill from what part of the starling did you get the white feather...

Boy I'm sure did miss doing the show this year... I regret not having met Carl at that show in 2015... That may have been the year I met Roadkill.... Cris's fly is a winner too...and Ray I'm working on your Jinglers...

got in my order,.... I'll soon have everything I need to tie Dubbn's caddis pupa...PS... i ordered the olive dyed Brahma...

Cha-Ching... that's a winner....