Nice tail. That thing's all you'd need to tie a fly version of a black and tan (or half and half, to our Irish brethren).

Thanks for the nice link, Bill.

I can vouch for the aroma-therapeutic qualities of pine resin.

. . . steelhead stocking a few years ago in one of our streams here and the word must have gotten out to the local Cormorant flock. They devoured the smolts just downstream of where we were stocking them. Cormorants do the same or similar thing on the Winter stockings of rainbow trout into park pon...

Yours appears to have a thick, prime winter coat befitting your climate. They don't grow that much insulation 1200 miles southwest of Livonia. Prettiest fox squirrel I ever saw was one Christmas Day in northwest Missouri, just across from Nebraska, near the river. The animal had a thick, fluffy coat...

I am already plotting my secret pattern for next Badger Spring Opener.

Maybe make it a little more challenging on them — woolly bugger?

I think the Daiichi and the Sierra . . . are also the same hook.

The photos Ray and I posted look the same, just different dimensions.

Sierra – Japan via HardyDeluxe



No idea if the hooks will suit you, but I found the service good, with a generous package of other hook samples.

An aside, but I've never seen sexier handwriting on this forum.

SL stands for Sveneric Loodh. I won't tell you what Sedge stands for. The fly also goes by the name "The Pastor". I'm sure you can understand why.

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Google Translate doesn't clarify "Sveneric Loodh". Maybe the missing photo told the story.

Thanks for the size info. Midges often skew toward the tiny, yet there are the relatively huge ones folks tie on #8s.