Thanks everyone for the responses and the recipes, both on and off list. We are currently in a deep freeze and If I can get my hand to cooperate I hope to do some tying. Will try to post some pics of my "new" tying area as well as some of the fly tying stations I have been working on. Jimi
Gary, Your experience is much like mine. Just 7-10 days after a heavy stocking on Pine Creek south of Slate Run (Camal), we were all fishing a very heavy series of hatches with a mixture of Grey Fox, March Brown, Olive Caddis, Sulfurs (Rotundas), and a couple I can't remember. We caught a few but finally relented the drys for the wets and slowly narrowed it down to the March Brown Wet as the one pattern that worked...somewhat. The next day found us down at the shop in Waterville and we asked about the funny vase of ORANGE ostrich herl. Guy said "that's what they're takin". "Huh?" I said. "If you're going to tie up some March Brown wets, you need to put a bit of orange behind the head like this" he said showing me a fly (not quite as good as ours that we had tied meticulously the night before) with a tinge of orange. Well, stocked German Browns by the local TU or stocked bows and browns by the PA Fish & Boat, it didn't matter. Especially the holdovers weren't fooled so we figured we'd better try this and went back to tie a mess of March Browns with orange ostrich herl we bought from him (yeah, a BIT expensive at that). That evening had another mixed hatch on so we started with tandems of 3 different flys and you can guess the rest. Every trout we caught that evening was on that orange eared March Brown and I have 2 left in my box to prove it exists. We absolutely slayed em that night and had a few folks asking us what we were using so I handed out a few here and there to the polite ones and had more than a few "thank you"s as they walked back by me at dark. ...Ha! Just checked my box and sure enough, there are 3 left. They look to be a size 12 wet with light tan (I'll match the shade later) dubbing, tan head, partridge collar followed by a prominent orange ostrich collar right behind it, body has a wire rib and the tail is dark brown wavy hair that I can't remember what for the life of me. Murf
