I bought some last year before I really started tying my own here:
http://fineflies.com/Mayflies/mayfliespage3.htm#Crane Fly Adult
I have tied up a few on my own and here is what I used:
orange or yellow floss for the body with a fine gold wire rib
6-8 knotted pheasant tail feathers tied in at the thorax. even numbers on both
sides for the legs.
two ginger hen hackles tied back to back for the wings.
ginger hackle over the legs and wings
I tie this on an 8 -10 size 2x-3x long shank hook.
The directions are not the best but you get the idea.
-sean
Keith Ayers wrote:
> Very nice post!
> I'm sure those were cranefly that the cutts were feeding on. They are out
> in full force now. I've experimented with tying some cranefly imitations
> but have never seen a commercially tied cranefly pattern. Does anyone have
> a recipe for such a pattern?
