swellcat wrote:What does "Mot" mean here?

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A joyful heart is good medicine . . .

I like both the body taper and the hackle sweep.

On the nearest (200 miles distant) sort-of trout stream, there is said to be a regular presence of cream midges, so that has me wondering about a downsized version/variation of your fly.

What does "Mot" mean here?

I'm partial to the sparser the better school.

Me, too.

RnF beat me to "minimalism", so, well-done.

Wispy, isn't it.

Would you be bothered if fish took it for a minnow?

Tanning damages some fur considerably . . .

To which tanning method(s) are you referring? In hair-on brain-tanning, for example, the agent—emulsified fats—does not come into contact with the fur. What would be the mechanism of damage?

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I'm continually surprised how many members/posters wear that scarlet designation on that site.

I like this question, not for any academic purpose or for a history lesson, but as a way to clarify a useful term to further our current conversations about these flies. Bravo, although I'm not hostile to historians or the rest of the academy. Is methodology the next step? Did "spider" co...

Thanks very much. . . . my father had a strain of chickens called "Red Quills". I wish I had kept a few of those feathers. http://i41.tinypic.com/zt9ma1.jpg The source bird's body had been discarded in a Fort Worth (where cockfighting is illegal) park. The fire ants had their picnic interr...

http://i39.tinypic.com/zn0mxw.jpg Hook: Cabela's Model 25 - Size 12 Thread: Danville's 6/0 orange Body: Dark tail quill from a fighting rooster Thorax: Blended dubbing with orange tabby cat, fox squirrel fur, orange Antron, and dyed-orange rabbit Hackle: Unknown, black Instead of contrasting with t...