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Lime Hen & Herl
Hook - Daiichi 1510/Size 8
Thread - Pearsall's Silk (Green)
Hackle - American Specked Hen Back (Caddis Green)
Rib - Fine Copper Wire
Body - Peacock Herl
Tail - Hen Hackle Fibers (same as hackle)

The flies in the top left and right are tyed with "henwing" style (as they are referred to by George Schlotter - designer of the henwing style). The one on the bottom is tyed with herl that has been dyed red (more visible in brighter light).

Ray,

What do you mean by "henwing style"?

Cheers,
Hans
back from the Finland trip

Nice color and tying job.

Mark

Hans - The fly in on the lower right hand side of the photo has the tip of the feather drawn over the back of the fly. I have seen this referred to in print as "henwing style", in an old fly tying magazine article and one of my books. I know Johnno posted similar soft hackle flies with a different name (Glanrhos Style). I think the construction is very similar, perhaps identical. I need to see if I can dig up the old magazine article where I first saw "henwing style" listed.

Here is a link to some of the Glanrhos style flies that Johnno has posted:
http://www.classicflytying.com/index.ph ... opic=36988

Thanks Ray. You had me curious, that is all.

Three neat bugs. Thanks for sharing.

Hans W

Hans - I just did a quick Google search on "George Schlotter henwing fly" and found the following link. If you scroll down in the article, you can see a pattern called a "Henwing Emerger" (also known as March Brown Henwing Emerger/Pages 85 & 234/Hatch Guide for New England Streams by Thomas Ames Jr.). According to Mr. Ames, George Schlotter's fly shop, The Angler's Nook, was for many years a fixture on the Battenkill in Shushan, New York.

http://www.thomasames.com/insects/artic ... spring.htm

If you read the article, there is a very interesting comment about how Mr. Ames fishes the henwing style fly. He writes "When the late afternoon hatch begins, I tie on one of George Schlotter's Henwing Emergers. By smearing floatant on the wing only, I can hang it in the surface film just like the clumsy natural, laboring to shed its shuck. Bigger fish often ignore the more exposed, high floating duns in favor of slightly submerged emergers." I need to remember this when I get to fish these flies.

After much searching thru my old fly tying magazines, I finally found the article that described tying and fishing the hen-wing emerger.

For anyone interested, the article is in:

Flyfishing & Tying Journal (Spring 2006 Edition/Pages 62 thru 64)
the article was called "Curious George", written by Thomas Ames Jr.

A really wonderful article, which has stuck in my head even after a few years...