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Adair...
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 8:45 pm
by Johnno
Wet fly hook of choice 10 to 16
Olive thread 16/0
Tail of GP tippets, silver wire rib over grey squirrel body.
CdL hackle under a hen quill wing....
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Re: Adair...
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 9:50 pm
by letumgo
Does this pattern have a history John, or is this one of your originals? Is that a natural color wing? Such a cool color.
Old school cool!
BTW - Are you moved into your new place now?
Re: Adair...
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 4:45 am
by Johnno
It’s one of mine and yup a natural wing. Quick and dirty iPhone pic. I’ll sort out a proper pic in due course.
And yeh in the new place now... which is good...
Happily I can get out and about as I’m essential services so not in lock down like most of the country....
But fishing, hunting, tramping is currently not allowed so confined to tying and running around the block..
Re: Adair...
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 2:37 pm
by Mike62
That is a fantastic looking tie, absolutely gorgeous.
Re: Adair...
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 8:03 pm
by Premerger
Nice tie Johnno.
Why did you call it Adair?
Re: Adair...
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:16 am
by Johnno
Name of my new street...
Re: Adair...
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 9:52 am
by hankaye
Premerger, Howdy;
Good to see ya back on the forum Tim.
hank
Re: Adair...
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 12:15 pm
by letumgo
Agreed. Welcome back Tim. Nice to see you drop by again.
Re: Adair...
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:08 pm
by Premerger
Thank you Ray and Hank.
It's good to see flymphs tied again.
Under Carl's nice Grey grizzly flymph, the photo posted by Lance of Pete Hidy's flymphs shows how bold the soft hackles are. They're long, up to 3X gape distance and there's numerous turns of hackle.
By spiralling the tying thread back through the hackle, I'm in no doubt that as well as being good fish catchers, they're resilient and would still look good returned to the box after active service.