Black Gnat - Leisenring

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Re: Black Gnat - Leisenring

Post by letumgo » Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:00 pm

Mark - could you repost your link? I can't get it to work for some reason.

This has been such a great thread.
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Re: Black Gnat - Leisenring

Post by Soft-hackle » Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:26 pm

Let's try it, again:

http://www.commanster.eu/commanster/Ins ... annis.html

or try this one:

http://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/bibio-johannis

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Re: Black Gnat - Leisenring

Post by redietz » Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:25 pm

William Anderson wrote:Mark, I should have looked back beyond the North Country school to the winged wets, where most were derived. I was just looking a more contemporary relative to Leisenrings fly. Of course you're right about the UK flies. But I wonder what Big Jim was trying to imitate in Eastern PA? Just a curiousity. I wonder if Jim Slattery has any insight from the Hidy notebooks.

Sometimes they just want a black fly, simply because it's easy to see in the water. The more I fish, the more I realize that not every artificial has to imitate a specific insect.
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