I really like Ray's thought of fishing this pattern in Roscoe. I'd love to see Ray's tutorial, and then pictorial, of the end result. I love learning new history...

A beautiful tie; thank you, Bill.

Thank you, everybody; good links. I hadn't even considered that Ebay would be a good source...

I appreciate the responses.

Cookshill is being difficult; does anybody have another source for high quality Starling that they could share with me? Thanks.

Any of these three patterns is worth fishing; they're gorgeous. But the third pattern is the the one, the one I'm stealing. Wonderful ties, Bill. Thank you.

Your post has gifted me with solace and perhaps a little motivation. Thank you, Doug.

Green seems to be second only to black up here; gorgeous fly, I've stolen it for next season. Thanks for posting it up.

Lovely pattern; we'll see if we can use it to success on some far off northern Maine streams next year.

I really enjoy Steve's site; it's always a great read.

That's the Electric Horseman of flies. Spectacular tying.