PS - Please include detailed materials listing so we can add some of these to our fly boxes...

Excellent spiders! I love the look of the segmented quill abdomens. Beautiful work and terrific photography, too. Thanks for sharing.

Scott - I haven't fished this fly so I can not comment on it's durability. I am hoping that this fly is a durable, since the rib is depressed into the dubbing body. The tinsel is an oval metal tinsel which I have also used on bucktails. Occasionally fish can break the oval metal rib, but the fly is ...

Lovely fly, Hans. Beautiful blend of materials and profile. Welcome back.

I collect books, dubbing and lately I have been collecting a number of game bird skins that can be used for soft hackle flies.

You've struck gold with this one, Hans!

(bad pun intended)

After much searching thru my old fly tying magazines, I finally found the article that described tying and fishing the hen-wing emerger. For anyone interested, the article is in: Flyfishing & Tying Journal (Spring 2006 Edition/Pages 62 thru 64) the article was called " Curious George "...

Hans - I just did a quick Google search on "George Schlotter henwing fly" and found the following link. If you scroll down in the article, you can see a pattern called a "Henwing Emerger" (also known as March Brown Henwing Emerger/Pages 85 & 234/ Hatch Guide for New England S...

Toxic?! Yikes!!! I better wear gloves next time...

No, I have not fished these yet. They are fresh off the vice, but I'm hopeful that they will catch fish. Time & testing with confirm my hopes...

Hans - The fly in on the lower right hand side of the photo has the tip of the feather drawn over the back of the fly. I have seen this referred to in print as "henwing style", in an old fly tying magazine article and one of my books. I know Johnno posted similar soft hackle flies with a d...