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I started looking in my dubbing bin for something "olive", and found all this. And this is before any blending ...

Shameful. You obviously need more shades to work with. Bring your checkbook to Roscoe. We can go shopping for more dubbing to fill out your selection.

I hope they take plastic

This makes me feel a little better. Looks like you've got a couple species covered. Let's see a couple.

W

My MB dubbing selection looks something like that.

Don't you dare feel ashamed!

Bill,
Wow! If this is just the olive dubbings, I can't wait to see the others in your storehouse! Really cool!
Dougsden

Donald Nicolson wrote:Very interesting!!!!!
A couple of years ago I posted a fly picture and recipe for an Olive on a North American board,
one of the responses I got, was that olive was not much required as there were very few olive
flies on their waters. I was a bit surprised, but thought 'what do I know', I'm not fishing in the
USA. I realize that there is a whole continent of fly variation over there, but still.

Interesting Donald. I am very surprised anyone would say there are very few olive flys on their waters. I would say that 25% to 33% of my fly patterns have olive in them. That goes for every river system that I fish. I will say this though, I dont see a need for olive hackle. As of yet, I have not witnessed a fly that had green wings. None that I ever noticed that is. I am sure there are patterns that incorporate green hackle, I just never use them.

I do use an olive dyed grizzly hackle for a few Streamer patterns, but I dont use solid green feathers.