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- Wed Jan 25, 2012 2:00 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: March Brown design drafts
- Replies: 95
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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. ;...
- Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:15 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: March Brown design drafts
- Replies: 95
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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...
- 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!!
- 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!
- 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...
- 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!
- 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!!
- 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!
- 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...
- 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...