Three Questions! (help appreciated on any and all, thanks)
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1. Can anyone identify this fly?
Recipe:
hook: standard mayfly dry
tail: none
body: pheasant tail fibers wrapped around shank to point 1/4 shank length from head
wing: black squirrel tail tied nearly flat along shank, sparse
hackle: several turns of black dry fly hackle
head: black thread
(this was a very successful dry fly for a recent visit to Sugar Creek Ranch in northern California)
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2. Can anyone please start a thread on how to best and most efficiently tie bullethead deerhair flies? (Hey, Terrestrial Season will soon be upon us!) Links to online photos would be a plus. Somebody in this wide web world has to have a page on this somewhere??
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3. I cut my favorite line in half this last fishing trip when I stepped on it as it laid across the edge of a sharp rock. Surgically precise fishing accident, we are talking here. By about five feet extra, I have enough of the front part of the line remaining to make a shooting head. Luckily, I also have 100' of .034" Orvis Wonderline running line I've had sitting around unemployed from an eBay purchase.
First, this Wonderline running line has a braided loop connection on the end intended to connect to the shooting head. The OPEN part of the loop on this connector is a whopping 7" long. That is: I can easily stick my hand through the loop. First time I've seen that. Does anyone know why the loop is designed like this?
Second, how bad a hinge-effect does this create in the flyline?
Does anybody have experience with this Wonderline running line?
Thanks, Wes Wada Bend, Oregon
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