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by Flykuni » Tue Jun 16, 2009 12:36 pm
The fly that took that nice brown above is my avatar. No name, rough thing, on a #18 TMC 103BL, one of my favorite hooks. I also love that 206BL. Wish the #24 was available in the US. Have had to order from England to get them -- anyone know an American source for them? It's a fantastic design, IMHO.
I can see now why it worked with hatching sedges. I had thought it was a mayfly pattern, thought the shuck, rough abdomen and bicolor feature made it a mayfly emerger, but it's clearly suited for the caddis. Maybe it's bi.
Thorax is creamy (not amber) Haretron, great stuff. With a rough dub -- I used to do loops all the time but have lapsed into laziness with touch dubbing and rough twists onto thread -- the guard hairs went wild on this one tie. I used one of the uppermost of feathers from (my first) partridge neck. They have nice coloration, grayish-blue, some variegationness, just the right size too. I tend to save flies that have worked or have caught memorable fish at memorable times. I'll keep this one.
My box of softies is a rough thing. I've tied such flies for only a few years now. But I have great faith in them. And I love them as wets, emergers, attractors, spinners, in moving water or in lakes. And so traditional. That's important to me.
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Flykuni on Thu Apr 29, 2010 12:51 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Soft hackles, silk lines, bamboo rods, were our forefathers handicapped? I don't believe so. I fish with few modern things, tippet and leader, hydrophobic powder, a car to get me there.
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