FLYMPH FORUM

Very nice, thanks.

I find golden plover makes a very effective Tups. If I recall, the original recipe called for golden speckled blue cock, which you will not be able to find. Golden plover definitely has the golden speckles. Looking at Donald Nicholson's Hare's Lug and Plover, imagine the body as unwaxed Primrose, and the hare's lug thorax as a semitranslucent slightly pinkish/yellowish blend of ram's wool, undyed seal fur, yellow spaniel (or golden retriever) hair and a very little bit of red mohair (all easier to find than the original hackle or the authentic "indispensible"). At least for me, it seems to outfish a standard hare's lug and plover.

I had always thought that the Hare's Lug and Plover was an old pattern, but I recently found this on Roger Fogg's website http://www.artofthewetfly.com/index_fil ... Plover.htm revealing that he had made the pattern up himself.

However, since there always seems to be nothing new in fly design, the chances are that he "rediscovered" the pattern whilst playing with traditional materials and just gave it a new name.

regards,

Doc