Some eyeless spiders

[Niklas Dahlin]

Working on a frame with some "Pritt" favourites for a friend.. Tied on old Partridge eyelss hooks, ca 1920..

Later
Nik

Hare´s lug & plover


Waterhen Bloa

[Old Hat]

Very classy, the waterhen bloa is a beaut.

[letumgo]

Beautiful classics Nick! Thanks for sharing these with us. I hope you take a picture of the finished frame of flies as well.

[Ruard]

Beautiful tied flies look very classic. See also:

http://www.artofthewetfly.com/hareslugandplover.html


Greeting

[GlassJet]

Indeed Ruard, I get the feeling from reading Mr Fogg's latest book that he has a well developed sense of humour and fondness for introducing 'memes', not least in the construction of his leader! (It changes line weight about every foot or so until it must be just a long sequence of water knots, for anyone who hasn't seen it. Excellent book though. )

Andrew

[Ruard]

Indeed Ruard, I get the feeling from reading Mr Fogg's latest book that he has a well developed sense of humour and fondness for introducing 'memes', not least in the construction of his leader! (It changes line weight about every foot or so until it must be just a long sequence of water knots, for anyone who hasn't seen it. Excellent book though. )

Andrew

fondness for introducing 'memes': my English is not so good that I can understand this, could you explain for me?

I read the chapter of the leaders again and now I see what you mean. Because I always use a braided leader with mostly only 12/100 nylon as a tippet I missed the 1 foot changing. I don't like thick nylon because I could not straiten it so well.

Greeting

[GlassJet]

fondness for introducing 'memes': my English is not so good that I can understand this, could you explain for me?

Sorry Ruard - but you can be assured that your English is far better than any other language I can communicate in - except maybe American.... maybe.

A meme is a term introduced by the evolutionary geneticist Richard Dawkins in his book 'The Selfish Gene'. He compares ideas that are introduced into a society and become accepted as fact with viruses, in the way that they spread in people's minds and become accepted 'fact'. As a confirmed atheist, Dawkins' ultimate 'meme' would be religious belief, but he does apply it to lots of things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
Similarly, Fogg introduced a new fly (Hare's Lug and Plover) but it is accepted in many quarters to have a long history, largely because of his naming convention, and so the meme spreads! I suspect that Mr Fogg has a rather mischievous sense of humour... in a good way, of course.

Sorry to be so obscure!
Andrew.

[Ruard]

Thank you Andrew. Makes it clear!!

Greeting

[Soft-hackle]

Great looking flies, Niklas. Very authentic looking.

Mark

[Niklas Dahlin]

Thank´s everyone.. will offcourse post a pic of the frame later..

Nik