Joyce, I really can't tell you which ones, because I'm always sort of making them up as I go trying to match whatever bugs I see on the water here. I probably haven't dubbed with split thread for a couple years, having rope dubbed just about anything I've dubbed most of the time. In 17 years living in Louisiana, I've only seen one species of mayfly (a Hexagenia species that is relatively common in the marshes here, ALWAYS hatches at night, and which I rarely fish, being unwilling to donate that much blood to the mosquitoes in the marsh). Caddis are probably even rarer. I end up not tying very many dries, but many more nymphs...specifically damsel nymphs and dragonfly nymphs. For the nymphs I'll tend to use yarns instead of trying dubbing things. I guess I've followed Tom Nixon's lead on much of this since he rarely dubbed flies as well. I end up tying mainly for bass, panfish and saltwater, so you can understand why I don't tie many traditional dries (lots of poppers and sliders though). I average getting to Arkansas, once per year where I might get a chance to fish for trout.
Mark Delaney --- Joyce's crafts and flies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark, I'm intrigued..since you don't do touch > dubbing (my favorite way to > do a body of many flies), kindly tell us which flies > are your favorites that > you do with the split thread (so time consuming- > editorial comment) Joyce > > ===== So much water, so little time! Website: http://chemprof.tripod.com/fishing.html E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
