Interesting dressing.

Bob - Could you list the full dressing? Definitely looks "catchy". :D ;) The thread was 8/0 black Danville; tail - a few pieces of black hen hackle; body small siver tinsel (thread covered with head cement before wrapping the tinsel body); starling hackle (taken from the fuller feathers n...

Recently, after looking at some salmon fly dressings that had silver tinsel in the dressings, I thought I'd give it a try with a small spider. The thread was 8/0 black Danville; tail a few pieces of black hen hackle; body small siver tinsel (thread covered with head cement before wrapping the tinsel...

Looks a bit like theRev. Powell;s "Orange Otters", eh? (MANY turns of hen hackles, pretty mjch making it a dry fly, per the Rev. Powell's dressings!)

ForumGhillie wrote: ↑Fri Dec 17, 2021 1:25 pm Bob (joaniebo), very nice.

What did you use for the blue hot spot?

John

John

Kingfisher Blue Goose Shoulder Feathers

Bob

Roadkill, You summed up my entire career.....re-inventing the past Speaking of "hot spots" in the past... John Atherton's Number Two nymph pattern (Gold-Ribbed Hare’s Ear nymph). From my recollection of reading Atherton's book, he never referred to "hot spotting" his flies. http...

In case someone doesn't know, here's a link to Rob Smith's YouTube channel.Great place to subscribe to get his latest / all his videos!

Bob

https://www.youtube.com/c/RobertSmithFlyTying/videos

Have also started a “partial” hackle library.

As I’m going through my MANY fly boxes to add flies to the “library “, I look at a bunch of the flies and then think two things. 1. I have no idea what most of the flies are or what they are supposed to represent. But many just look so pretty! 2. How the hell am I ever going to fish all these flies?...

Got this idea from a recent Davie McPhail YouTube video, so I went to Hobby Lobby and bought some coin collecting sheets, plus some baseball card collecting sheets (for a Hackle Library). I get the feeling that I'm going to have a LOT of library time in the future!