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by Roadkill
Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:00 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: March Brown design drafts
Replies: 95
Views: 27424

Re: March Brown design drafts

he difficulty with bubbles, were they to exist in the quantity that you suggest then it would not pay for a trout to go chasing them , unless of course whilst on their holidays I don't suggest that trout regularly chase empty bubbles although they might at times just like a foam strike indicator. ;...
by Roadkill
Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:15 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: March Brown design drafts
Replies: 95
Views: 27424

Re: March Brown design drafts

I am a believer in the mimicry idea but in the scope of my reading of Hidy I prefer to apply the plain meaning rule and Occam's razor. I think Pete may have been referring to "bubbles"- the plain old kind, not some sub-exoskeleton gas at the point of emergence. I agree that flyshops and su...
by Roadkill
Tue Jan 24, 2012 12:47 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Soft Hackle Seatrout flies collection
Replies: 14
Views: 5937

Re: Soft Hackle Seatrout flies collection

Beautiful flies and artwork photography!! 8-)
by Roadkill
Sun Jan 22, 2012 2:08 am
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: March Brown design drafts
Replies: 95
Views: 27424

Re: March Brown design drafts

Beautiful fly only one thing to improve it-take it fishing! 8-)
by Roadkill
Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:00 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Steelhead/Salmon Flymphs..... ;>)
Replies: 265
Views: 55763

Re: Steelhead/Salmon Flymphs..... ;>)

Here is another Pheasant hackle steelhead flymph that I tied in August. It was my steelhead tie of letumgo's Rusty Berlin Bum #12 trout fly. Hook- Mustad 90240 #6 Body-Orange wool and Peacock sword in a dubbing loop. Hackle- Ringneck Pheasant https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1748/41940730415_21acd335b...
by Roadkill
Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:17 pm
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Smoky Joe
Replies: 12
Views: 3695

Re: Smoky Joe

Classic fly Hans, just begging to be fished! 8-)
by Roadkill
Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:50 am
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: March Brown design drafts
Replies: 95
Views: 27424

Re: March Brown design drafts

The tying epitomy of "A Chip off the Old Block", great work! Looking forward to seeing the finished flymphs!! 8-)
by Roadkill
Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:24 am
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: Iron Blue Dun Nymph
Replies: 40
Views: 11237

Re: Iron Blue Dun Nymph

All great flies but I especially liike the third and the last! 8-)
by Roadkill
Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:14 pm
Forum: Fishing Wingless Wets
Topic: I.D. insects- A general question
Replies: 29
Views: 13810

Re: I.D. insects- A general question

One very basic error which is often made is to wet a fly and then look at it in air. This is completely pointless, flies look completely different when SUBMERGED! Wetting them and looking at the results in air does not tell you anything useful at all in regard to their appearance and behaviour unde...
by Roadkill
Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:44 am
Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
Topic: March Brown design drafts
Replies: 95
Views: 27424

Re: March Brown design drafts

GingerDun I would also consider some with a darker body than those pictured just to go with that ...mph stage of the fly/nymph struggling to the surface and not yet fully emerged as a Dun. Consider a progression with a nymph photo on the left , a darker flymph and then your 2 nice flies then the Dun...