Will do, have heard good things about that fly, so will go seek it out...Hans Weilenmann wrote: Andrew, may I suggest you give the CDC&Elk a try...
Cheers,
Hans W
In the mean time, I feel on the one hand I should apologise for hi-jacking the thread, but on the other, as the thread was started by you and so in a way you are complicit in your own hi-jacking, so to speak, there is perhaps no need to apologise.
The simple sedge is one of my most successful patterns, so just had to have a go at tying it with the 'new body'. Ahh, it must be Spring...
Note to me: Must get back in the gym.... 
I really like that use of snowshoe hare's foot as a body dubbing - is that a new way of using this material or am I just being thick and missing stuff?
It reminds me of a fly the old guys who fish my river tell me of. They tie a fly from sheeps wool that is plucked off the wire fences and use that as body dubbing, with a partridge hackle, and an optional silver rib. The wool pulled straight from the sheep still has the lanolin of course, the natural waterproofing quality, and so floats well - or doesn't sink too fast. Which presumably is a quality the snowshoe hare's ear will share.
So it will be interesting to play with!
So thanks! Andrew.
