An olive hackle and rib will do it for me!

Here is a smallish searun of around 2 1/2 lbs from a couple of days ago from the same river but closer to the sea. Another soft hackle victim BTW! He was dinner and the flesh was as orange as a salmon http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd68/matuku/fbd208d9.jpg And the type of fly that took him: I th...

A look in my fly boxes would show how that out of approx 15,000 flies (I have a lot of fly boxes ok? :) ) you would be hard pressed to find many silver or gold bodied flies other than on a few streamer patterns. One that is seen down here now and again is a 16 - 12 hook, tail of red hackle fibres, b...

Nice flies there Hans.

I have some Thar offcuts as well but have yet to have a play with them. One day I'll get around to it!

Pronounced "Shammy". Sort of a Mountain Goat. http://inlinethumb47.webshots.com/41006/1036844110035204585S200x200Q85.jpg Introduced here in NZ many many decades ago and whilst not that common, sometimes seen when out deer stalking or fishing around various places in mountainous areas of th...

Been experimenting with Chamois hair as a hackle recently.

Makes for nice emerger style low riding dries...

Hmmm. No. Not convinced these are your best work Hans (this and the S'more)

The beads just don't do it for me soft hackle wise. Just a personal thing. Other's opinion may differ and thats the way it should be

...Hen dyed "dusty Rose"...

New one on me. Where on earth did you get that from?

Most interesting site that Thanks! See how big the heads are on many of their flies. Obviously like 'em like that! Anyone have anything or know of any English language sites on Italian fly fishing? I am after something from Northern Italy specifically relating to their use of wet flies with hackles ...

No Mike that is definately a "straight" brown. I have never really thought of the Motueka browns being an unusual colouration. They have swum in these waters and the tribs for some 140 odd years so over that time they may have slowly taken on this look. Its a free stone river with some bed...