Sorry for the cross-post, but I want to get all the opinions on this that I
can. I hope the following makes sense.
It seems to me that throughout FFing history, the slightest variation in a
particular pattern resulted in a "new" pattern with a different name. Now
these aren't necessarily real patterns, but for example, a bucktail
streamer tied with black thread, silver tinsel around the hook shank, a
yellow bucktail wing over white bucktail, with peacock herl over that, on a
#8 4x streamer hook was called by a particular name. Change the tinsel to
gold, the bucktail wing to red over yellow, and omit the herl and you have
a different (although extremely similar) pattern with a different name.
These days, it seems that most patterns that stray from the originators
exact pattern aren't renamed with a new moniker, but instead are referred
to as "a variation of...". Although as I think about it, there's not alot
of difference in a Crazy Charlie and Lefty Kreh's, "all the bucktail on
top", version of the Clouser Minnow. Nor is there a thimble full of
difference between the afore mentioned "Charlie" and the "Gotcha", or the
myriad of other bonefish flies available today.
A personal example of fly similarity/variation is, I tie a "variation" of
Tom Nixon's, "Pigboat". I use various types of chenille for the body. I
use silicone spinnerbait/jig skirts instead of the "rubber thread" that Mr.
Nixon specifies in his ties. Mr. Nixon palmers hackle around the chenille
body to help hold the rubber thread skirt out away from the body. I do not
apply palmered hackle to mine because the silicone skirts that I use stand
out quite nicely without any assistance, even during retrieve.
My question is, how far removed from the original pattern should a fly be
before it is a different pattern?
I would appreciate your feedback/opinions/expertise on this topic.
- Gary
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