Flymph Challenge - Rabbits Foot Dubbing

[hankaye]

Howdy All;

Wayne, excellent job of not only obtaining the foot, but also the fly created
from the results of your encounter with the roadkill.

Jeff, when Wayne told of his tail of whacking and hacking with the utility knife
while keeping the hungry natives at bay, my mind thought about pruning shears ...
then I read your post and had to Google "bypass secateurs" do to the fact that I'd
not heard the term before. Here is the best (for me), response that I encountered.
"Pruning shears - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruning_shears Cached
Bypass secateurs. Pruning shears, also called hand pruners (in American English), or secateurs,
are a type of scissors for use on plants."
Once again the proof is in the pudding that we are separated by a common language. , .

hank

[William Anderson]

How's this for a late entry. I did finally put something together, but things in my world seem to move in an alternate universe. Better late than never.

Snowshoe Flymph: natural snowshoe fibers prespun on orange silk, snowshoe tail, tinsel rib, Smuggler Grouse hackle (species unknown)

[DUBBN]

Nymph, emerger, dry, cripple. William, your pattern has all the bases covered (for me). Extremely well done!

[Smuggler]

Nice use of that bird. This is great!
Seriously tie some up in various sizes, I bet you'll clean house with this come spring.

[Mataura mayfly]

Nice work William.
Did you clip and sort some longer guard hairs from the foot for the tail of this fly?

[William Anderson]

Thanks everyone for the comments. This challenge on the surface seems a bit incongruent, but converting any of the great Catskill dries or UK nymphs to flymphs is standard course and Fran Betters' Usual holds a pretty high rank in terms of "historic" patterns. (Anything older than I am is vintage.) I have been working on putting together some boxes that are designated for a single fly or species and tying a pile of Usuals would probably be a good idea. I've fished it a few times and it does fish very well. I'm sure a soft-hackled version like the ones shown in this thread would be very effective. Might be nice to have something like this on hand. Runs directly counter to me efforts to pare down my fly selections.

Jeff, I did clip some of the guardhairs for the tail and made some effort to remove the longest and shortest of the group, stacking them wasn't an option.

Thanks, Ray, for the challenge.