Recently I have been playing with ribbing using the vinyl type material, I don't know what it is exactly (the stuff they top czech nymphs with) in all sorts of colors with very good returns. Some of it incorporates a lot of different color shades and is translucent so that you can blend it with dubb...

Nice, Carl! What hook is that? Mark Thanks guys. Mark it's an old date Mustad 3121. I like the up eye for flymphs, and this is a pretty heavy wire hook, which I also like for flymphs. Might be a little overkill on spiders. Here is where I found them. I have found some great hooks here and the price...

I know .... almost March but ....

Thread: Crimson Griffith's 14/0 waxed
Body: hare's mask mix predominantly yellow in split thread twist
Hackle: Med. dun hen

These quail have beautiful dun breast hackles with black tips. Not a lot of these feathers on a bird. It's a transition feather from the neck to colorful breast feather. Thread: grey Griffith's 14/0 Tail: Light blue dun Body: well waxed thread and muskrat Hackle: upper breast feather from a californ...

That transparent color is great. Really a beauty Andrew. I bet a little gold or silver tinsel under that waxed thread would really make it pop in clear water on a bright day.

Carl

I was in line with Aaron, thinking a body of golden yellow with claret rib and partridge hackle. Of course an Iron Blue Dun would be a must. Maybe a claret body ribbed with purple and hackled with starling.

I try to keep Atherton's ideas on multiple color use in mind whenever I am coming up with a new pattern or mixing dubbing. I have a few flymphs and softies in my box inspired by Atherton's light and dark nymphs. I often use a two tone brush on my flymphs with a darker transition into the thorax area...

Beautifully tied Roy and the tutuorial is a bonus. I just thought I would mention, only as an addition, that I believe Stewart, after winding the hackle with the thread back, tied off the hackle at that point and not at the head of the fly. Someone correct me if I am wrong. Many may know this but to...

I must have missed this one. Great fly Andrew. Add a very sparse red wool tag and you have a Reid's Assassin, one my favorites and my go to pattern on #18 for midges.

Andrew, it looks wonderful. Great combination of colors that would, at least in my area, make a nice caddis imitation.