Very nice Ron, I like both but tend to like the fly with both sides of the hackle. This spring I’ve really dedicated myself to fishing flymphs and wet flies and I’ve been really impressed with my success which I owe to the fine folks here!
Mike.

Beautiful, I can’t wait to see some flies tied from it.

Hmm, something to think for my waters here in Michigan. Our two most famous night time hatches the brown drake and hex, and spend a lot of time fishing both. I need to incorporate something like these as my eye sight slowly fades.
Mike.

Roadkill, I hope all is going well post surgery and that you have a quick recovery!

Oh yeah, that is sweet!

Very nice! Hopefully you can put to use soon.

Thanks for sharing, really nice looking pattern.

Mike62, you’re absolutely right and I love tinkering with this stuff. Back in the early 80’s I bought a bear archery whitetail hunter compound bow, one of the first compounds and oh my god did I and everyone I knew tinkered with that thing. Gentlemen that I knew who were engineers could not get enou...

Yup, same picture, I sanded some today very lightly, and the I hit with some rogue on a Dremel polishing wheel. It helped some but still popped the thread once. My local hardware did not have small enough shrink tube so I’ll still have look around a bit for that, or I thought about liquid electrical...

Thanks Ron, I’m going to check out those hackle pliers. I emailed smhean and received a quick response, they suggested maybe some shrink tube which I may try, but I want to give sand paper a try first. I also thought about the brush on liquid electrical tape, what ever I’ll get it.
Mike.