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Starling and Yellow by GlassJet, on Flickr

Hook: Kamasan B981 #14. Silk: Pearsall's yellow, waxed. Hackle: Starling, part palmered. Rib: fine gold wire.

Thinking behind this no more that nicking the body of the Greenwell's Spider, which performed so consistently for me last season, but trying it with a different hackle. There is something that looks so 'alive' about the starling hackle, to my eye, as in the Stewart's - so thought I'd give it a go.

Andrew.

That looks really toxic Andrew, and a top notch picture to go with it...

Lovely fly Andrew!

Fish catcher for sure.

willowhead wrote:Fish catcher for sure.

And your marks out of ten for artistic merit?

Nope - don't answer that!

Lovely - a very clean and crisp tie.

GlassJet, Howdy;

From tenitive babysteps about how to clean-up the eye to this... you ain't runnin' ... your racin' near the speed of sound
dyn-o-mite lookin' fly an cleanest eye in town to boot.
hank

You're on a roll now, Andrew. Using the Greenwell body with starling is a stroke of ... well, someone who has a really good feel for dressings that will kill.

Andrew, the body length on this seems to suit this color of silk much better. (insert emoticon here as not be misunderstood as making a rediculous comment.)

Nicely done as always.

w

William Anderson wrote:Andrew, the body length on this seems to suit this color of silk much better. (insert emoticon here as not be misunderstood as making a rediculous comment.)

w

William, is this the point where i really wind you up by using skype emoticons?

Nah, I wouldn't do that.... that would just be petty...


Andrew