Mataura mayfly,

Those are some nice flies!! The second ones look like a Purple Peril variation and the big 'bows should love them.

tie2fish I posted another steelie Inland Spade before on the ostrich thread. ;) https://live.staticflickr.com/1795/42973476951_e63a753df0.jpg IMGP3067 by William Lovelace , on Flickr Here is a very good read on Jackson's thoughts on flies and steelhead (the real anadromous kind) vision and the need ...

Mm The deer hair is natural and the peacock pattern is indeed called a Coastal Spade but not named after the deer hair but for the waters near the coast where Alec thinks the thinner body is more productive. Moving inland a fancy spade with the rear of the body in Peacock and then a fatter Black Ost...

willowhead Here are a couple more of A.J. Spade flies I like that I finished yesterday to give to a friend to fish in Washington rivers. #2s, one Peacock and one Ostrich body... https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1767/28968800278_3009891732.jpg B0019362 by William Lovelace , on Flickr https://farm2.stat...

Fantasic works of art!!

I don't see a wing on it but not sure it's a wet fly-maybe a diving beetle SH.

Beautiful fly and foam!

Thanks Hans! I have to give that one a try but I will also have to make a few with hot orange thread for those fluids pumping up the wing of some naturals. Sometimes I like those hot spots like the Halo midge and the Usual provide. With all cdc does it tend to float on it's side like a cripple with ...

For me CDC is just one more tool in my tool kit. As with any tool it has its strengths, weaknesses, and limitations. I try to use the strengths, and mitigate the weaknesses and limitation in the materials I have available, all materials.For CDC, its strengths lie in floatability (provided the struc...

In fairness to Gary LaFontaine's legacy, I think we need to consider that all of Gary's thoughts about selective trout triggers, flashes of light, and bubbles didn't revolve around just bubbles under the skin. As I recall his flies like the Airhead and Halo emergers were predicated on what he saw wh...

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. ;...