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Hans Weilenmann wrote: Andrew, may I suggest you give the CDC&Elk a try...
Cheers,
Hans W

Will do, have heard good things about that fly, so will go seek it out...

In the mean time, I feel on the one hand I should apologise for hi-jacking the thread, but on the other, as the thread was started by you and so in a way you are complicit in your own hi-jacking, so to speak, there is perhaps no need to apologise.

The simple sedge is one of my most successful patterns, so just had to have a go at tying it with the 'new body'. Ahh, it must be Spring... Note to me: Must get back in the gym....



I really like that use of snowshoe hare's foot as a body dubbing - is that a new way of using this material or am I just being thick and missing stuff?

It reminds me of a fly the old guys who fish my river tell me of. They tie a fly from sheeps wool that is plucked off the wire fences and use that as body dubbing, with a partridge hackle, and an optional silver rib. The wool pulled straight from the sheep still has the lanolin of course, the natural waterproofing quality, and so floats well - or doesn't sink too fast. Which presumably is a quality the snowshoe hare's ear will share.

So it will be interesting to play with! So thanks!

Andrew.

Andrew, the underfur from a Snowshoe Rabbit foot has been used for body material for the Usual (Fran Better's famous fly), since at least the 40's i'm sure. Come to the show (at the Ethan Allen Inn [hotel] this weekend in Danbury, Conn. Nov. 6th and 7th 2010), and i'll show you. http://www.cffcm.net
Great tye Hans.....

willowhead wrote:Andrew, the underfur from a Snowshoe Rabbit foot has been used for body material for the Usual (Fran Better's famous fly), since at least the 40's i'm sure. Come to the show (at the Ethan Allen Inn [hotel] this weekend in Danbury, Conn. Nov. 6th and 7th 2010), and i'll show you. http://www.cffcm.net
Great tye Hans.....

Thanks for the info - bit of a treck for me though, that show, I'm afraid...
Andrew.