>Please tell me more about that #16 EGD-FW? The EGD is indeed an eastern green drake, made with a sparkly pale-spring-green dubbing that I hand-dye and make. The FW is actually for a fuzzy-wing, something I came up with (I'm sure others have done likewise) where the wing is a doubled-over piece of antron yarn tied parachute style and frayed. The hackle, however, isn't wrapped parachute style, but is wrapped "standard" style, 2 wraps in front and behind the upright antron wings. The recipe is really easy, with those things (the spring-green dubbing, the grizzley-dyed-yellow hackle, and the pale-yellow yarn) and a tri-tail of three microtippets in olive. For smaller flies, a few ginger hackle barbs work for the tail. I'll ship ya' a pack of dubbing and a sample fly on a card. Kinda my 'signature' fly, as it floats in the film or maybe an inch below the surface, if the yarn gets waterlogged. I treat the dubbing with dry-fly-floatant, and use heavy waxing for dubbing, so that I get it to float like a cork. Well, I have to get back to work so I can visit the in-laws... Tight wraps, Pete
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