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Black Gnat - Leisenring
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:05 pm
by William Anderson
Hook: #14 Daiichi 1550.
Silk: Pearsalls Gossamer Silk - Claret
Body: 2 crow fibers from the secondary wing feather, twisted around the silk and wrapped.
Hackle: Starling Hackle
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Re: Black Gnat - Leisenring
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:18 pm
by tie2fish
Beautiful.
Re: Black Gnat - Leisenring
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:31 pm
by chase creek
Nicely tied; a good producer, too.
Thanks for posting.
Re: Black Gnat - Leisenring
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:11 pm
by JohnP
Great-looking fly. I am going to have to try a couple of those if the rivers ever get low enough to fish around here.
Re: Black Gnat - Leisenring
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:11 pm
by Ron Eagle Elk
Just lovely. Something to aspire to.
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Re: Black Gnat - Leisenring
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:41 pm
by willowhead
VERY nice..........is that your ISO emerger?
Re: Black Gnat - Leisenring
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:45 pm
by Roadkill
Beautiful fly-need to tie some myself if I can find my crow feathers.
Re: Black Gnat - Leisenring
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 4:08 pm
by michaelgmcgraw
Another great fly William !
Re: Black Gnat - Leisenring
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 7:29 pm
by letumgo
Clean, uncluttered & very very "fishy" (sincere compliment).
Re: Black Gnat - Leisenring
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 12:24 pm
by CreationBear
Chalk me up as another admirer as well.
A question about all of your feather-fiber bodies, though: where on the hookshank initially do you like to catch the fibers? If my material was long enough--like, say, pheasant tail--I could see starting at the eye and wrapping down for extra strength, but I'm thinking from the slender abdomens here that you are content to catch in the tips near the bend.
Also a question about technique: are you wrapping the crow around the "working" thread and bringing it back up, or perhaps you leave yourself an extra-long tag when you initially cast the thread, to twist with the feather fibers?