On Tuesday 18 June 2002 09:01 pm, Jack and Roxanne wrote: > Hello List > Looking for flytiers in the state of Washington. A gentleman from > Seattle was catching fish on a on a lake here in Montana and he said that > he was using an Olive Willie. Looking for a make up of the fly or better > yet, a picture. > Any tiers from the state of Washington know anything about this fly? > Thanks in advance.
An Olive willy was created by a guy in Swede's Fly shop as a fly to represent damsel fly larve wandering about on the bottom of a lake. Check out http://www.swedesflyshop.com/favorite_flies.htm for images of the fly. the same named fly is tied in several different ways but the most recent version is the fatter one on the right. The trick to the fly is the laterally flattened thorax which is made by chenille that is spiraled on top of the hook to make an oval, which is then overwrapped by the same chenille. (at least I think that's how he did it). If you want a sample of this fly, I can pick one up, and I could possibly get him to write the pattern down.... Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after.
