Hope you write the book on this subject. Can you give us any examples of the "Spider" pattern you alluded to? Do you think that these type of flies or the technique one uses in drawing them against the water current would put the fly into an attractor class? If the fish, ie trout or grayling, are responding to movement, does the fly pattern really make much difference?
Using neologistic thinking...
Steve Schalla
In a message dated 9/5/02 8:08:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Soren, while I could likely write a book about moving dry flies, a
classic example is the Spider pattern, not the soft-hackle North Country
Spiders from the UK, but flies tied with only 3 - 4 times oversize
hackle on light-wire, short-shank, hooks. These are no longer popular,
mostly because while they will generate lots of rise action, they are
very poor hookers for obvious reasons (the good spade hackles needed to
tie them are also moderately difficult to find). Cheers,
Paul
