07-05-2011, 02:56 PM
I really like your blue wire on that.
Yours is pretty close to what I tie. Mine I started out with it being a dragon fly nymph imitation, but I think the fish take it for either, or as a small leech. I don't have any left after my last trip to Lamont last week, but basically it is on a size 10 or 12 hook with peacock chenille body, olive marabou tail, and overwrapped with olive fluff. (I don't know what to call the fluffy fibers on the bottom of hen hackle feathers --- hence "olive fluff"!) If I get one tied up soon I will post it, but I am an absolutely awful tier so don't laugh too hard when you see it. I called it the "Ratty Dragon" for a reason!
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Yours is pretty close to what I tie. Mine I started out with it being a dragon fly nymph imitation, but I think the fish take it for either, or as a small leech. I don't have any left after my last trip to Lamont last week, but basically it is on a size 10 or 12 hook with peacock chenille body, olive marabou tail, and overwrapped with olive fluff. (I don't know what to call the fluffy fibers on the bottom of hen hackle feathers --- hence "olive fluff"!) If I get one tied up soon I will post it, but I am an absolutely awful tier so don't laugh too hard when you see it. I called it the "Ratty Dragon" for a reason!
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