Black Hackle

[crazy4oldcars]

That's amazing. Now I have to try to find some black peacock.

Maybe it's just that the scanner forced all of the barbs into one plane, but the scanned fly looks denser in both the hackle and the body herl.
i'll have to take that into consideration when looking at scanned flies. A fly that looks sparse in a scan ought to look positively anorexic in-hand.

Kirk

[gingerdun]

Maybe it's just that the scanner forced all of the barbs into one plane, but the scanned fly looks denser in both the hackle and the body herl.
i'll have to take that into consideration when looking at scanned flies. A fly that looks sparse in a scan ought to look positively anorexic in-hand.

Kirk,
I never should have posted that first scan. I edited it poorly, and the shadows are very misleading. I think I may have heightened the saturation a bit too much as well.
The second image, the photograph, is not perfect either. I'm returning after a long hiatus from macro photography, and am a little rusty.

Lance

[Eric Peper]

That second shot looks awfully good to the bumblers like me, Lance. Lovely design, and I am sure it will be very effective.

Eric

[Mataura mayfly]

Kirk,
I never should have posted that first scan. I edited it poorly, and the shadows are very misleading. I think I may have heightened the saturation a bit too much as well.
The second image, the photograph, is not perfect either. I'm returning after a long hiatus from macro photography, and am a little rusty.

Lance[/quote]

The new 6D should be just the ticket for rust removal.
The second shot proved that. Wonderful detail.

[letumgo]

"eyebrows" = Priceless!

Outstanding beetle pattern, Lance. I bought some black peacock herl from Great Feathers last year. Gorgeous stuff.

[crazy4oldcars]

Lance,
Please. That was not a critique of the shots in any way. That was my little, dim, light bulb doing it's best to provide illumination.
I like both, and now that I know they're the same fly, It helps me see what I'm seeing. If this is rusty, I quit!
Keep up the good work!

Kirk

[gingerdun]

Lance,
Please. That was not a critique of the shots in any way. That was my little, dim, light bulb doing it's best to provide illumination.
I like both, and now that I know they're the same fly, It helps me see what I'm seeing. Kirk

Kirk, no worries. I never took it as critique, not that there is anything wrong with critiques. I was just upset with myself for being so hasty that I posted a really terrible scanned image that did not represent the fly well at all. I just need to be more patient, and wait until I get it right before posting next time.

Lance

[Boris]

That's a great fly and would be used as a beetle imitation here in Australia. We have a black grass beetle here that hatches in great numbers at certain times of the year, belongs to the scarabidae family.

[gingerdun]

That's a great fly and would be used as a beetle imitation here in Australia. We have a black grass beetle here that hatches in great numbers at certain times of the year, belongs to the scarabidae family.

Boris,
What size hook would your beetle require?

Lance

[Boris]

Depending on the locality I've seen them from a 14 to a 10

Here's the adult


and the lavae