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This and at least a dozen more very similar to it are what I'll be mailing to Ariel (fflutterffly) for her CFR chapter ...

Hook: Daiichi 1550, #16
Thread: Pearsall's Gossamer #15, Maroon (Dark Claret)
Hackle: Collins Greenwell hen cape
Rib: Extra fine oval gold tinsel
Body: Thread wraps, heavily waxed

Oh Bill....

That is a stunner!!!! You be way fast man!



Vicki

Certainly works for me.....

looks very nice Bill.

Greeting

Mouth wide open! This is going to be one fun Auction and Retreat with all the beautiful flies coming in. I can't wait to convert some of the "Modern" fly users into wet fly advocates.

Anybody else getting an Isonychia vibe? (Although you'll have to get a Tenkara rod to skitter it fast enough toward the bank... )

I have a question, though: with these slender thread bodies, do you have a preference about how you tie in the wire/tinsel back down the hook-shank? With dubbed bodies, I've gotten into the habit of running the wire down the opposite side so the first wrap back up is neater, but since you can often see the wire under the silk, I was wondering if you tried to make a virtue out of necessity and create a darker dorsal or ventral "vein."

Wire ribbing can present some macro photo problems, especially if one is using floss for the body. As you suggest, CB, tying it in on the far side will hide it from the prying eye of the camera, but your idea of intentionally positioning it to simulate a body feature is very clever. In the case of an X-fine braided tinsel rib such as the one on this fly, it has a silk core that can be compressed enough using dark shades of Gossamer thread wraps that it doesn't show up even if you don't take pains to hide it. For what it's worth, so as to not create a "bulge" at the back end of my flies, I've pretty much quit tying in stuff back there and then trying to trim off the tag ends; instead, I either tie ribs and body silks in at the front and wrap over them going back, or tie them in at the rear and leave long tags that I wrap over going forward.

X-fine braided tinsel

I'm assuming Lagartun?

At any rate, thanks for elaborating: a super tie, though on the downside I'm going to mope around with a fit of "hackle envy" all day.

CreationBear wrote:

X-fine braided tinsel

I'm assuming Lagartun?

At any rate, thanks for elaborating: a super tie, though on the downside I'm going to mope around with a fit of "hackle envy" all day.

Lagartun, oui.

CreationBear wrote:Anybody else getting an Isonychia vibe?

That was absolutely the first thing I thought of when I saw the picture, but size 16 is a bit small. Oughta be a killer regardless.