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Another one from Roger Woolley's 'Modern Trout Fly Dressing', under 'Grayling flies'.

White Witch by GlassJet, on Flickr

Roger Woolley grayling fly. Hook: Kamasan B410 #14. Thread: Olive uni thread. :
Tag: red silk floss. Body: green peacock herl. Hackle: white cock (Yokahama saddle soft feather cock here) Rib: silver wire.

The strand of claret seal's fur shouldn't be there, btw! lol

Crit welcome btw - the patterns in Woolley's book are text only, so I have no idea what this should look like! I guess the barbs are a bit too long, are they?

Andrew.

I like this one a lot, Andrew. The color combination reminds me of the "Royal" series of flies.

[quote= I guess the barbs are a bit too long, are they?

Andrew.[/quote]

You have to ask the fish. If the hackle is on the soft side I don't think it matters. It would be a tasty fluttering something. If it's stiff I would have problem to hook a grayling. Since you have tied it for us it's all right. I don't have a cape that light. Now I know why I have always wanted one.

dd

daringduffer wrote: I don't have a cape that light. Now I know why I have always wanted one.

dd

I wish I had a cape like that. I don't have much of that hackle left at all - it was from one of the Yokahama chickens my friend used to keep - one of the many she lost to the mink.

Andrew.

Some animal activists "freed" 13800 minks from a farm in a trout stream area last week. Just think of all the damage. One trapped mink equals 400$ worth of trout fry per year. Not to speak of other victims.

Had some of those 'Activists" do the same thing here in Utah 2 yrs. ago. Not so many got out, but, the "Friends" of the critters let them out of their climate controled environment in the middle of winter. Temps. were down to - 20 or so at night. Found a few 'mink-cikles' over the next few days.

Stupid human trick #27

'mink-cikles'
Hank - I read that and BURST out laughing! That's too funny.

Mink-cicles!

I don;t know what it is that really motivates the people who do these kinds of thing, but the last thing it is is a genuine concern for animal welfare. It always seems rather more a bitterness towards their fellow Man, to me.

"I don't know what it is that really motivates the people who do these kinds of thing, but the last thing it is is a genuine concern for animal welfare."

These folks are daft if you ask me. The incident that best reflects this view was the one where they released a batch of lobsters "liberated" from a seafood store and neglected to take the rubber bands off the claws .

I for one do NOT know what makes them tick.

What I DO know is it is NOT a fine Swiss watch movement...

hank