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Snickers
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:52 am
by Soft-hackle
Snickers
Hook: Mustad Limerick # 3665B #10
Thread: 8/0 Dk Brown Uni-thread
Hackle: Dark Brown Speckled Hen
Rib: Fine copper wire
Body: Chocolate colored brown bear, dubbed Leisenting fashion on dark brown 8/0 Uni-thread
I put this one together to attract attention.
Mark
Re: Snickers
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 12:39 pm
by letumgo
It sure catches my attention! Holy cow that's a pretty fly.
Re: Snickers
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 12:48 pm
by hankaye
Mark (s-h), Howdy;
Who dosen't like a "Snickers".......
What I said about the "Hareristable" applies here as well.
For some reason I have "That feeling" that the fuzzy flys will do more catchin' in that river than anything else...
Re: Snickers
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 1:00 pm
by willowhead
Got my attention too..........looks good enough to eat.
Re: Snickers
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 5:55 pm
by Ron Eagle Elk
That is a beautiful fly. Looks like one to fish with confidence.
REE
Re: Snickers
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 8:21 pm
by DUBBN
Where are you obtaining your "speckled hen" hackle?
Could you post a pic of a cape if you havent already?
Thanks,
Wayne
Re: Snickers
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:07 pm
by fishhead
I'm loving all the fly's you have been posting
Re: Snickers
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:59 pm
by michaelgmcgraw
Yup! me too
Re: Snickers
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:42 am
by Soft-hackle
Dubbn,
Speckled hen can be found in a number of places like here:
http://www.feather-craft.com/wecs.php?s ... rget=TP030
http://www.bearsden.com/product5420.html
http://www.bearsden.com/product5283.html (The Chick-a-bou is nice stuff, too.)
If you can find a shop that carries these, it's nice to look at them to select the darkness, specking, and color you want. I also look at the range of feather size as well. Many look quite similar to Partridge. I've picked up some nice colors along the way.
Mark
Re: Snickers
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:40 am
by willowhead
Hen hackle wraps so nicely and comes in so many colors and degrees of motling.....it's the perfect material. Ya'll gotta remember, all those old farts from back in the days.........if they'da had what we have nowdays.....they'da used it. They didn't have no fly shops or Whiting Farms, so they hadda shoot whatever was in the backyard.....or out nestin' in the barn.
