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Quite awhile back, I saw a pic of this dressing and the name got my attention - "Bloody William's Other Mate", so I had to tie a few. Don't remember if I still have them or fished them, but I got a chuckle when I saw the pic in my computer files.

Those look like a murderous lot! Capital killers, as they used to say.

Thank you for sharing these. I plan to tye some for my spring box.

Question - Do you still have the recipe? I can make out most of the materials from the photo, but a recipe would remove the guesswork.

I now wait for our own bloody William to comment on this. WA, where are you?

dd

The dressing for "Bloody William's Other Mate" was taken from pages 16 and 17 from T. Donald Overfield's book: "50 Favourite Wet Flies." Will have to dig out the book and take a couple pics.

Bob,
These patterns are exquisite! Very well tied indeed! I have a variation of this pattern on my "corks" on the den wall and differs in that I have no tail but the back one third of the dubbing is a bright red and the whole thing is ribbed with very fine braid (oval tinsel) in silver! Yours look much better than mine....but, that is a given!
As always, impressed with your work (your pleasure!),
Dougsden

letumgo wrote: ↑Mon Nov 19, 2018 7:55 am Those look like a murderous lot! Capital killers, as they used to say.

Thank you for sharing these. I plan to tye some for my spring box.

Question - Do you still have the recipe? I can make out most of the materials from the photo, but a recipe would remove the guesswork.

My apologies for the delay in posting the requested info....to be honest, I forgot!

Awesome! Thank you for posting the picture and tying sequence. Very much appreciated!

I plan to tye some of these up over the winter. Looks like a deadly pattern.

Thanks Mate!

Awhile back, I bought all three books written by T. Donald Overfield....."50 Favourite WtFlies; 50 Favourite Dry Flies; and 50 Favourite Nymphs." Interesting little books that didn't cost too much...but then again, I bought them 7 to 8 years ago and haven't checked on availability or price since then.