Thanks Ray for your kind words. I'll try to photograph the fly again later.i did notice my hand in focus ,annoyingly after posting the image!
It's raining again, so I'll get tying later

Thanks Ray. I'm sorry about the picture quality. The weather here in Ireland has been unbelievable this summer. Brief run-down; April......2 weeks dry weather. May.......4 days dry ( not consecutive ) June......5 days dry ( not consecutive ) July.......3 days dry ( not consecutive ) August....0 days...

Love the look of these sneck hooks. Less than $5.00 for a 100 from ken hook.

image.jpg This is my attempt ( or version!) of the winged march brown from the Shaner collection. Untried as yet. Hook. Mustad #12 short shank sneck. Body. Pearsall's silk, touch dubbed with hares ear with yellow silk rib. Wing. Partridge hackle Legs. Ditto, lashed and hacked! I love the look of th...

Hank, Read that book! Brilliant read. He had a very minimalist approach to fly selection. He recommended only a few go-to patterns, instead of boxes and boxes of them. So what do we do with all the flies that we tie. I'm thinking of sorting my boxas out by river, not by type! Raining here again toda...

Sorry about the terrible grammar, hangover!

I was thinking that this pattern could represent a trapped blue winged olive of some sort or a caddis. I tend to fish it up stream dead drift. I'd like to do the wings a bit neater but this is harder than it looks. For now I'm happy with my results as I've only been tying for around a year. At the m...

That is beautiful. I'm embarrassed about that wrough looking "thing" I posted last!!
I can only cast a green eye and dream....

Hi I like the look of the legs like I've done, just kinda throw a figure 8 around em and just snip em off . The more randomly the better. Does anyone think the hook shank is too long? Thanks William for the link! Interesting..... Must get my thinking cap on
Dave

Nice!