Donald, Nice looking tie. Over here we class a nymph as a fly that has no hackle apart from maybe a few whisks as a beard or representing legs, so would class your fly as a wet fly. NOT that I am calling you out or saying you are wrong, just to let you know when it comes to fly grouping here in NZ w...

Thanks guys. Good luck with the tests Mark. I am away from home and doing the hospital visit thing myself, my Kimmy is in the surgical ward of our local big hospital...... Im playing the devoted care giver to try to get her out and home. Oldhat that is a seriously neat looking tie! My black electric...

Yes, you got it right. Decided not to copy you...... just yet till I get some practice in! Found a reference to "Electric Soft Hackles" so tried a couple of them instead. The olive one is done on some cheap bulk (soft!) hooks I picked up somewhere that I use for practice, but it turned out...

And purple is a proven fishy colour, especially if fished deep as it retains it's colour better in lower light spectrum than most other colours so still gives contrast instead of fading to grey as most other colours do as they run out of light.

Nice "modern" tie Mark.

Thanks Mark.

You know those backwater trout are teasers, very visible- but very hard to induce a take out of! If anyone was going to be able to produce results though, it would be that fella in the photo peering over the grass.

Mark that is one I could almost reproduce, albeit not as nicely tied! The orane herl might slow me up...... dyed ostrich would be easier to find here.Can do the Mallard prett easy from here- but thanks to one of our fellow members I now have some wood duck. Floss or mylar? Either way it is a nice sm...

willowhead wrote::..........i swear, whata i gotta do? leave frickin' inner office memos............. maybe i'll just dock her pay..............

Yep.... good luck with that buddy!

Jeff.

Have not had a lot of rain here for the last couple of months Hans, so many of those backwaters are drying up! :cry: There seem to be a few of these wire bodied flies showing up...... here is another, be the Silver puke I guess! Silver medium wire, Kamasan B175 #12, Australian possum guard hairs tou...

Golden Pheasant hen Looks great...there are a lot of "exotics" (to us Americans) like Reeves Pheasant etc. that seem to have a lot of possibilities if you're willing to think outside the "North Country Wet" box. :) As I have stated elsewhere, those exotics are not too hard to fi...

Matura--loving that "Big Softy;" what's the hackle? Hackle?.... er..... em....... you now how hackle for wet flies usually comes from necks- bodies- or wing somewhere, this one is from the soft broard flat tail feather of a Golden Pheasant hen. Not the usual kind of material you find on a...