Yorkshire Spider (Shaner Collection)

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Re: Yorkshire Spider (Shaner Collection)

Post by hankaye » Fri Jul 20, 2018 6:06 pm

WiFlyfisher, Howdy;

Now ain't that just the cutest wee bitty bug :D .

Can't wait till you give us an 'After action report'.

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Re: Yorkshire Spider (Shaner Collection)

Post by narcodog » Fri Jul 20, 2018 8:00 pm

John, now that's what I was talkin about. Discussions such as this have been lost along the way.
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Re: Yorkshire Spider (Shaner Collection)

Post by Bazzer69 » Fri Jul 20, 2018 8:11 pm

Maybe technically not the best Fly in the world, but it WILL catch fish.
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Re: Yorkshire Spider (Shaner Collection)

Post by Bazzer69 » Sat Jul 21, 2018 12:27 am

I know what you mean about eyesight. I have a very defective left eye and astigmatism in my right eye. On top of that I’ve got glycoma. But solder on, my flies are not so great but I tie plenty that manage to fool a fish or two. I was once told that a fly is like a impressionistic painting, it can appear to be many things when looked at by a fish!
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Re: Yorkshire Spider (Shaner Collection)

Post by tie2fish » Sat Jul 21, 2018 7:28 am

We will be most interested in hearing how that works, John. I think we often get sidetracked in our tying by the idea that our fishing flies need to be macro perfect. I have noticed more than a few times while fishing that the fuzzy profile and scruffy hackle of a well chewed fly has proved to be an effective catcher -- frequently more so than a new one fresh out of my vest.
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Re: Yorkshire Spider (Shaner Collection)

Post by Tom Smithwick » Sat Jul 21, 2018 9:08 am

I have had very good luck on highly pressured fish by using a simple size 20 pheasant tail during a trico spinner fall. One fiber for the body + couple turns of blue dun or cream hackle. The hatches in PA start in early July and continue until the first hard frost. At first, the fish will take the standard fully dressed patterns, but after a couple weeks, sparser patterns, including the soft hackle fished just under the surface work better. It's a humbling experience to have a perfectly good floating pattern on an 8X tippet drift harmlessly through a pod of voraciously feeding fish time after time, but it happens. Try the soft hackle then just under the surface, and also after the fall and surface feeding is over put on a tiny split shot and fish it deeper. I would not doubt that a simple silk and hackle fly would work fine as well, and I would not hesitate to play around a bit with colors like cream, pale olive, black, etc.
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Re: Yorkshire Spider (Shaner Collection)

Post by narcodog » Sat Jul 21, 2018 11:21 am

Hey John, be sure to tye a few extra so I can steal them from you when were on the Madison.
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Re: Yorkshire Spider (Shaner Collection)

Post by narcodog » Sat Jul 21, 2018 1:01 pm

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WiFlyfisher wrote:
narcodog wrote:Hey John, be sure to tye a few extra so I can steal them from you when were on the Madison.
Bob, you are always welcome to my slightly used, re-bent fly patterns. :D

I look forward to you, Jim, Flyshop Bob and I swinging flies together!

BTW, I have designed a new "secret" flymph style fly pattern just for the Madison. You guys will be jealous. ;)

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Re: Yorkshire Spider (Shaner Collection)

Post by Old Hat » Sat Jul 21, 2018 3:12 pm

John, those are quite nice. They show you share the same interest in purpose and function as those masters in Shaner’s collection.
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