In my last post, the fly I was referring to was a mayfly pattern and the recipe follows:
the Jarvis Special hook: Daiichi 1180 or 1182 thread: Gudebrod 8/0, color to suit tail: stiff, spade hackle fibers body: fine dry fly dubbing, color to match natural wing: Antron yarn hackle: cock hackle to match natural I use grade 3 Hoffman, Metz or Spencer in that order of preference. Some companies don't call them grade 3 anymore. Basically I use the least expensive, dry-fly grade cock necks available. I incorrectly assumed Del's dilemma was with mayflies, which is why I offered the dressing instructions that I did. I usually don't associate floatation problems with caddis flies, hoppers, Stimmies, etc., because the most prevalent winging material for those patterns is deer or elk which has excellent floatation characteristics compared to hackle and are (theoretically) less likely to suffer submergence. DJ ===== http://www.geocities.com/salmn8r/caddisforkids.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
