A forum to discuss tying and fishing wingless wet flies and other soft hackle fly patterns
https://flymphforum.com/
Reminder to self: don't fish behind Bob.Bobs opinions are pretty spot for many things.
That's about as good a treatise on hatch-matching as I've seen--definitely "clip-and-save" matrerial.Great flies W!William Anderson wrote:I think Ray has the set. After tying a pile of comparaduns to be sure we wouldn't run low. Trees wreaked havok on us all. Ray mentions he would like to see the SH version and Bill produces a beautiful pattern using all the exact same materials, tying the hair in as a collar. Flawless.CreationBear wrote: I'll definitely look forward to some pictures.
On the other hand, I tied up some quick and dirty patterns, dying to fish some of the seal blends. I would be interested in tying up a few of these with a little more care. This one was fished.
Hook: Daiichi 1530
Hackle: Plover
Thread: rusty orange 8/0
Rib: gold rayon rib
Body: yellow+natural seal body dubbing loop
Thorax: Tups blend (30% claret seal, 30% yellow seal, 40% hare's mask edge)
This one took a couple as well. I don't believe it was fished. The copy that was is lost.
Hook: Daiichi 1180
Hackle: Plover
Thread: 14/0 brown
Rib: yellow rayon
Body: 50/50 natural and yellow seal
Thorax: same
I caught on both of these, but like it said, we were in the right place.