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Purple Shade
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 4:53 pm
by Hans Weilenmann
Purple Shade
Hook: Lightning Strike NW1 #12
Thread: Benecchi 12/0, grey
Hackle: Whiting Coq de Leon hen, dark pardo (wrapped into thorax)
Abdomen: Goose biot, dyed purple
Thorax: UV Ice Dub, brown
Note: Biot is tied in to show fuzzy ridge.
Cheers,
Hans W
Re: Purple Shade
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:41 pm
by Soft-hackle
Great work, Hans.
Mark
Re: Purple Shade
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:34 am
by flyfishwithme
Now I like that fly. A little darker coloured it would be great on the Wharfe in Yorkshire.
Re: Purple Shade
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:27 am
by VERN-O
Hans....glad to see you're rested from your trip....and this fly shows it for sure.
Re: Purple Shade
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:57 am
by narcodog
I concur with Vern-o, Tell use what materials you brought back so the rest of us can drool over them.
Re: Purple Shade
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:07 am
by Hans Weilenmann
Not a lot to tell. I collected some Paradise duck breast feathers and some goose wing quills which I found on the bank. That is it.
The dyed biots, of which one color was used in the above fly, actually came from a South African contact, not from the New Zealand trip.