Gary,
It depends on how clear or fast the water is but I usually end up using one without as I seem to hit in slow, low water. The color of green seems to be crucial in clear water. Its sort of green-olive, green-olive palmered hackle, medium tail and I never use brass but use black as they are spooky in clear cuts.
Believe it or not, a March Brown wet with a teeny bit of orange ostrich in front of the thorax has has some vicious takes and have even had this taken on top. (Tony's secret bit of red trick?)
Murf
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From: "Garry V. Wiles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: [VFB] Ima secret
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:07:48 -0400
Murf,
Do you put a beadhead on that woolybugger for those Erie Steelies?
-->Garry
At 10:42 AM 8/24/2005, you wrote:
Ima,
Don Ordes (his site is fantasyflies.com I believe) likes to kid around and uses some wacky names as his alter-egos like Buggs, Dr. Demento, Veronica, when he jokes. DonO is an excellent fly tyer and invented a technique called rope dubbing which is explained at VirtualFlybox.com. It is truly an innovative way to apply dubbing and prodes a very nicely segmented body.
Be aware that we joke around sometimes but not when it comes to learning how to tie flys. Some days the technical jargon gets very serious and different tyers have various ways to accomplish tying a particular pattern. You have found a very informative group of expert to novice tyers with methods you can only learn here...unmentioned in Benchside Reference.
The easy but effective patterns I would invite you to learn first include Tony Spezio's WRD, Byard's Killer Caddis and I'll let others suggest more. My thousands of flys are over-kill obsession as most of my fishing is down to a few patterns; #18 Yellow Humpy for brookies, #16 tan caddis for rainbows, #12 olive woolybugger for steelhead and #16 Adams with a #16 Killer Caddis dropper for browns. I reserve the right to change this list and love soft hackles as well.
Murf
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- From: "Imagine Mamawaka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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- Subject: RE: [VFB] Ima secret
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:22:15 +0000
- David,
- I am not sure if I understand why Buggs are on a short leash. What does that mean? What do these people have to do with tying?
- Thank you for the reply.
- Ima
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