Top 3 Flymphs or spiders?

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Re: Top 3 Flymphs or spiders?

Post by Mataura mayfly » Thu May 28, 2015 1:07 am

1: Purple & Starling (either with or without a bronze Peacock thorax)
2: Orange & partridge (or Mark Libertones Lil Dorothy)
3: Soft hackled Pogo Nymph.
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Re: Top 3 Flymphs or spiders?

Post by chase creek » Thu May 28, 2015 8:38 am

1. Gotta go with REE - Baillie's Black spider :D :D
2. March Brown Flymph
3. Partridge and Orange
Plus most any with Hare's Ear :D
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Re: Top 3 Flymphs or spiders?

Post by zen leecher » Thu May 28, 2015 10:16 am

My top two are:

Partridge and Orange
REE's Madison Cabbage
and I haven't really settled on a third as the above two are the ones I've had the best results with. Everything else is in "the noise".
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Re: Top 3 Flymphs or spiders?

Post by Premerger » Thu May 28, 2015 5:14 pm

1. Brown grouse #14
2. March Brown spider #14
3. Stewart's spider #16.

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Re: Top 3 Flymphs or spiders?

Post by Smuggler » Thu May 28, 2015 7:35 pm

I knew this would turn into a great thread.
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Re: Top 3 Flymphs or spiders?

Post by novabass » Fri May 29, 2015 1:11 pm

zen leecher wrote: My top two are:

Partridge and Orange
REE's Madison Cabbage
and I haven't really settled on a third as the above two are the ones I've had the best results with. Everything else is in "the noise".
What does REE's Madison Cabbage look like?
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Re: Top 3 Flymphs or spiders?

Post by daringduffer » Fri May 29, 2015 2:14 pm

Hare's Lug and Partridge (yellow silk)
Black Spider
Endrick Spider
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Re: Top 3 Flymphs or spiders?

Post by Ruard » Fri May 29, 2015 2:21 pm

Here are mine:

Holospider
Partridge and orange
Harelug and plover

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Re: Top 3 Flymphs or spiders?

Post by zen leecher » Sat May 30, 2015 1:49 pm

novabass wrote:
zen leecher wrote: My top two are:

Partridge and Orange
REE's Madison Cabbage
and I haven't really settled on a third as the above two are the ones I've had the best results with. Everything else is in "the noise".
What does REE's Madison Cabbage look like?
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There were some pictures of the Madison Cabbage on the board but the posters pulled the pictures. It's a sparkley purple dubbing and starling hackle.
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Re: Top 3 Flymphs or spiders?

Post by tie2fish » Sat May 30, 2015 5:49 pm

This is not exactly the same, as it uses black hen instead of starling, but it's reasonably close. FWIW, this pattern took the largest brown I caught on the Madison last year.
Madison Cabbage Flymph Style.jpg
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