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This is one beautiful fly! Materials, how it is tied, colors, choice of hook - everything is "as should be". Is USK NAYLOR Your pattern or old one?

REE & kacbo ~ I originally found this pattern on an English website put up by the Gwent Angling Society, and if memory serves me (which it doesn't always do anymore), the bronze mallard was wound palmer style rather than in touching turns. If this be the case, the version shown on the link to a 2009 post elsewhere is more historically accurate.

WOW! the fly at the link is killin'............way cool. Do you twist (or wrap them around the thread), the mallard fibers before you wrap?

WOW

like it!!

Greeting

hi Tie2fish,

Tried to find something in one of the books I have but nothing about this fly!! Only internet has something. It looks so classic that I thaught there must something in literature: nothing!!

Someone else any idea???

Greeting

willowhead wrote:WOW! the fly at the link is killin'............way cool. Do you twist (or wrap them around the thread), the mallard fibers before you wrap?

willowhead ~ No; the wire rib helps protect them I guess, but it's probably not a very sturdy fly tied this way. The tail whisks would get destroyed quickly as well should a fish eat it.

Thankx t2f.......i don't much worry bout that sorta thing............i mean durability is all fine and dandy........but far as i'm concerned, somewhat over-rated. First off, if a (fisnin') fly "works" well enough (and it's all presentation anyway), for you to catch even one fish.........hey, it's done it's job. If it falls apart at any time after that......no biggie at all. Just one more opprotunity to tye another fly. Bring plenty flies to the stream is all.................these tight-wadd types............
i'll take beauty over durability ANY day..........

If your tyin' commercially or takin' money for (fishin') flies.........thass different........but when your just after a beautiful tye for purely asthetic reasons...........nuff said.

Recommendations on when to use it from http://www.gliffaeshotel.com/2010/08/re ... es-tackle/:

Flies -Early Season

Olives predominate until the March Brown arrives in late March early April. Dark Olives are best to start and lighten up as the weather improves.

• Dark Olives (12)
• Medium Olives (14)
• Rough Olives (14)
• Greenwells (14)
• Greenwell
• Olive Nymphs (12-14)
• Usk Naylor (12)
• Granoms (12)

Late March
• March Browns – red/yellow/hares ear bodies (10-12)
• Goldribbed Hares Ear (12-14)
• Blue Upright (14)
• Usk Naylor (12)

April
• Iron Blue (14-16)
• Light Olive (14)
• March Brown (10-12)
• Olive Nymphs (12-14)
• Usk Naylor (12)

May, Early June
• Ginger Quill (14-16)
• Blue Dunn (14)
• Light Olive (14)
• Evening Dun (16)
• Alder & Pheasant Tail (12-14)
• Usk Naylor (12)

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