Hare's Lug & Plover Drake

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Hare's Lug & Plover Drake

Post by UC Steve » Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:06 pm

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This simple dressing is my favorite for meeting UC green drakes.
Hook: #10 TMC 200R
Thread: yellow Pearsall's
Hackle: golden plover
Tail: bronze waterfowl flank colored with bright yellow highlighter
Body: olive hare's mask twisted on a loop of the tying silk, touched with gray rabbit over the thorax
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Re: Hare's Lug & Plover Drake

Post by Roadkill » Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:30 pm

That is a fine looking fly! 8-)
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Re: Hare's Lug & Plover Drake

Post by Premerger » Fri Feb 24, 2017 11:25 pm

Very nice looking fly.
Am sure it looks just as nice from the front. The plover is a beautifully marked hackle.
We don't have green drakes as far as I know but it'd do well here in NZ.
How hard can it be?
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Re: Hare's Lug & Plover Drake

Post by tie2fish » Sat Feb 25, 2017 7:19 am

Looks to be a killer bait, Steve. Love the dusting of grey in the thorax.
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Re: Hare's Lug & Plover Drake

Post by letumgo » Sat Feb 25, 2017 9:15 am

Oh wow! That is so graceful. Although the fly would look elegant in a frame, I know this is something you fish. Even better, IMO.
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Re: Hare's Lug & Plover Drake

Post by swellcat » Sat Feb 25, 2017 12:16 pm

I see blue, people.
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Re: Hare's Lug & Plover Drake

Post by letumgo » Sat Feb 25, 2017 12:17 pm

Blue?
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Re: Hare's Lug & Plover Drake

Post by Jerry G » Sat Feb 25, 2017 12:48 pm

On my screen as well, the thorax rabbit fur as well as a reflection off some of the hackle appears as blue. Pretty but blue.

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Re: Hare's Lug & Blue Plover Drake

Post by swellcat » Sat Feb 25, 2017 12:57 pm

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Re: Hare's Lug & Plover Drake

Post by UC Steve » Sat Feb 25, 2017 1:01 pm

swellcat wrote:I see blue people.
Thanks for the kind words gentlemen. Always a pleasure.

(Swellcat, that happens sometimes as you get older. They may be real. And maybe not. But it's generally best not to tell anybody you're seeing blue people.)
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