Fly-fishing isn't just fishing... the water has to be analyzed. Fly-tying isn't just tying... the fly has to be analyzed.
If something requires analyzing, then it should be ANALYZED!! (I should be penalized.) /Nick -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För Charlie Bonner Skickat: den 5 maj 2006 23:13 Till: [email protected] Ämne: Re: [VFB] Chilli Pepper Classification- scientific I think that may be the most I have ever read about a Wooly pepper bugger chilied. >From: "Niclas Runarsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [VFB] Chilli Pepper Classification- scientific >Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 22:57:00 +0200 > >Well, >what makes a WB a Pepper? what makes a Pepper a Chilly Pepper? > >I asume that the bead head and the red / orange thread, which forms the >neck below the bead are necessary to make it a Pepper. > >Whaddayall think? >************************************************** > >The first thing that comes to my mind is the tinsel chenille (flash >chenille, crystal chenille or whatever the manufacturer has named it >as) instead of the regular chenille. Next thing will be the 8 strands >of crystal flash in the tail. > >I, personally, don't think the bead should matter. I mean a bead on a >Hare's >Ear Nymph didn't make it seize to be a Hare's Ear Nymph... it just got to >be >a Beadheaded HEN. So a Woolly Bugger with a bead should just make it a >Beadheaded Woolly Bugger. > >So, to be scientific about then (thinking in parallel with what I >learned from herpetology studies): My own Black Peppers have all the >ingredients that the true Chili Pepper ('Chili pepprus pepprus') has, >only in black, which I think makes them 'Peppers'. Really just the same >species spreading to other habitats and mother nature creates color >adaptations. Sometimes these will be refered as subspecies ('Chili >pepprus blackentrix') and sometimes they will be refered only as a >color variant of the species. When I tied my Grizzly Peppers, the >evolution step was more radical, since now we're talking a different >kind of marabou feathers... and an actual physical change is good >enough to make them a subspecies (Chili pepprus grizzlii). > >Now Ian has tied a variant of my Black Pepper using 'black chenille >with just a touch of flash', chenille/flash blend... so now it gets >more interesting. If my Black Pepper is one of those "color variants", >then Ian's fly (with a PHYSICAL material change), would be a subspecies >to the Chili Pepper and a "brother" to the Grizzly Pepper... maybe a >'Chili pepprus chenastes'. But if my Black Pepper made it to >subspecies, the rock might start to roll. Ian's variant might actually >break the family into two. I don't have a PhD, but I know this has >happened to some snakes. A new snake variant is found and they cheer >"YES!!! ANOTHER SUBSPECIES!!!"... but then they discover that this >isn't correct. The snake has turned out to be closer >to an already existing subspeices than it is to the actual top species. >They >won't give it a fourth name. They won't place it as a separate species, >since it's closer to another snake's subspecies than the true species. >So...... the already existing subspecies will be put as a new species, with >the new snake as it's subspecies. So my Black Pepper gets kicked out of the >Pepper family and gets named 'Chili leechus leechus' and Ian's fly gets >named 'Chili leechus chenastes'. > >And now we enter the comic side of the scientific side. I've heard or >read something about the Chili Pepper first started as some kind of >joke. Someone refused to tie a bugger on the tippet and this, or a >variant, was given to him. Something like that. Obviously this will be >hard proof that the Chili Pepper is a younger species than the WB. The >difference between them are merely the flash material and the bead. >Evolution grabbed hold of the bugger and turned it into a Chili Pepper, >which developed subspecies of its own. Ian's fly made it too crowded so the >fly I tied as a subspecies got kicked to a new branch on the tree. Nature >forms and adapts and species are born, just like it has always been... >except in this case. The Peppers had left chenille a long time ago, but >when >Ian chose chenille/flash blend for the body of his fly 'Chili leechus >chenastes', his fly is actually taking the 'Chili leechus' family back to >where it started... Buggers. Nature going in reverse!!! And since my fly is >now on top of that branch, I will be the one taking the fall for starting >it. > >...and this while the 'Chili pepprus' family advances and advances. >:o( > >/Nick > >
