Mike Methods of attaching leader around the shank are not forgotten here in the Pacific Northwest. Some steelheaders still use knots through the eye and around the shank and you can find an occasional blind eye iron swimming in our streams. ;) Some of us tie a few flies in the box with more space be...

Love the body Hans! It would probably be a great midge pattern without the hackle. Could be great as a convertible fly in the box.

tie2fish As I am sure Mike understands, I tend to agree that the flies overall appearance might be more aesthetic (or fish closer to the surface as Mike tends to fish) on a shorter shank. I chose this hook for the considerstion of weight in my fly and how it will fish(sink) rather than the look of t...

Gary

The closest refererence that I can give you is to refer to Ronalds Yellow Dun and Yellow Sally in the Fly-Fisher's Entomology. The flies I am trying to represent here are genus Heptagenia and Isoperla. Some day I hope to dunk some soft hackles in a proper British chalk stream.

Gary If I am fishing this soft hackle as a pale evening dun cripple or as a yellow sally stonefly adult, the naturals in my area have no dark thorax. If I was fishing a nymphal stage for these insects the entire body and hackle would be darker and a different pattern such as hares ear and brown Part...

A Partridge and Yellow Mustad 3906 #14 tied with Pearsall's Gossamer primrose thread but the body is Kinkame silk thread. The thorax is beaver belly.

Here are a couple of Moorhen patterns tied with purple silks. A Moorhen and purple flymph-Mustad 3906 #12 tied with purple Pearsall's Gossamer and a dubbing loop body with Alec Jackson's silk floss turned into dubbing. http://www.westfly.com/photopost/data/500/medium/IMGP2344.jpg A Moorhen and purpl...

A beautiful fly! I love the body coloration.

Oregon also allows 3 flies and I use a 2 fly cast about 90% of the time. Very useful when I am comparing a new fly to a trusted pattern or fishing unknown waters with no hatch happening. Idaho allows 5 but I have never gone past four flies in a cast there.

Beautiful fly Hans!

Must be something in the air. I was struck by the purple bug this weekend and tied two purple flies with purple silk dubbing.