Thank you for sharing this info, I'm about to give a little presentation to our local tying group on the history of the "wingless wets" etc. This article will be very helpful.

bill,... I'll try and post pictures of the squirrel zonker sculpins Ive been fishing... hope i don't get banned from the flymph forum for such blasphemh

Bill your determination to keep this forum going by posting your flies is admirable.... I got in this morning with no issues as soon as I typed in the correct id..... Hope it keeps up...

great flies by the way... how did the zonker strips work out

I agree with joaniebo and variants replies,,, Smith's book is beautiful and despite the debate about his historical stuff, the patterns and recipes provide endless inspiration.

the water that Roadkill fished last week was swarming with anglers today... who knew this forum was so widely read? Consequently, we had to fish second choice water and found a healthy hatch of mayflies. Naturally, i was rigged to Euro nymph... and got no touches...so totally rerigged, put on the so...

I think the old sliding bead technique is an old bass fishing trick... using a bullet weight above the worm and letting it slide as it moves along the bottom...sure works with a plastic worm on bass... should work on trout.

on the middle descutes this week, the squirrel with red thread head was a top producer...my version is pretty close to your,,, using the spikes squirrel dubbing...

thanks Carl, that's great info. Hope all is well out there in Florida....

that's some nice crab

REE I'm pretty sure that checks all the boxes...should be on Carl's website.