Sowbug Softy - Natural Color
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Sowbug Softy - Natural Color
Another sowbug softy pattern. (sorry for the so so pics, working on getting a better lens for macros - recently got a new camera)
Hook: Size 12 Nymph
Thread: UTC 70 Olive
Body: Wapsi Sow-Scud Sowbug Dubbing
Spine: Black Medium Wire
Hackle: Partidge
Head: UTC 70 Olive
Hook: Size 12 Nymph
Thread: UTC 70 Olive
Body: Wapsi Sow-Scud Sowbug Dubbing
Spine: Black Medium Wire
Hackle: Partidge
Head: UTC 70 Olive
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Re: Sowbug Softy - Natural Color
OUTSTANDING!!!!! Extremely well done.....
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Re: Sowbug Softy - Natural Color
Ditto!
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Re: Sowbug Softy - Natural Color
That's a beauty! And the photos are good too ... all you need to do is crop them, which will blow them up nice and "close".
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Re: Sowbug Softy - Natural Color
Nice fly! Does the wire spine affect how it rides in the water?
Re: Sowbug Softy - Natural Color
That's a good question and one I will have to look at. I usually just fish it like I would any regular nymph. When a sowbug is free in the water, they are at the mercy of the current and are thrown every which way. So I am not sure it would matter much. I have good success fishing it free of weight or with weight on my leader, or having the pattern weighted with led wire.Roadkill wrote:Nice fly! Does the wire spine affect how it rides in the water?
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Re: Sowbug Softy - Natural Color
Scott, you come down here and have yourself 100 fish day with that thing any time you like...........you'll never leave.
Learn to see with your ears and hear with your eyes
CAUSE, it don't mean a thing, if it aint got that swing.....
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CAUSE, it don't mean a thing, if it aint got that swing.....
http://www.pureartflytying.ning.com