You may want to look into getting a Whiting Midge saddle for your small flies, or one of the Whiting 100 packs sized to #20. If you have a good quality cape and tiny hackle pliers, you can find hackles for those gnats.
pacres On 12/16/06, Desert Eagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK, need some input here. I am trying to get some Griffith gnats ties in 20 down. Problem is the hackle being to long. They look more like a spider than a gnat. Question, is there a particular place on a pelt that will have suitably small enough feathers for hackles this small? Or do you just use the very tip of a dry fly hackle and hope it is right. I am having a dickens of a time finding brown and grizzly hackle to work on these as well as Wardens Worries down to hopefully 22 or 24 if I can. Thanks in advance. Jimi
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