Is it recommended to crouch, stay low and fish from the banks without getting into the water? The correct answer I think is "All of the above" :), but to be honest I think this might be a case where the fish are telling you how (or how not) to fish for 'em. If you absolutely have to fish ...

There is a similar British pattern, which is tyed with a horsehair tayer over the top of the tinsel. If I remember correctly, the horsehair serves to tone down the flash of the tinsel. One that Ray mentioned a while back was the "Connemara Gold" that had horsehair over the tinsel--I tied ...

That is a nice collection...you know, one of the things that stands out to me on these and other Hidy flymphs is that the hackle seems to have been placed in an anatomically correct :lol: manner, "amidships" where the natural's thorax would be. Makes you wonder if the "tiny head"...

I get much pleasure out of the names of your creations

What, was the "Viagra Humpy" already taken?

Now here is a bloke who really knows how to test a theory. "Orange" just seems to work in the fall of the year, even in the Antipodes.

Great post and great fly--I think the L'il Dorothy is my favorite of all of Mark's ties I've seen over the years. If I were a betting man, I'd wager that the orange wets out to a nice "shuck" color if you're fishing it as a sulphur.

Kickin' it, Grannom style?

Great flies--especially like the pupa...really subtle move with the herl and thread at the head.

Just about perfect....fishable 300 days a year on my home waters.

Ha, no doubt a brown with spots the size of nickels would make for quite a rodeo up there...I just wouldn't want to be the guy who punched it off the hook with the net.

Ray--

What Hank said--I suppose "Seal Prostate Specific Antigen might take this forum to a whole 'nother level.

At any rate, great looking fly...one to remember for the sulphurs no doubt.