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Nice fly Jeff. Is the hook eye an experimental thing or did it just take your fancy. I've seen salmon flies done that way without hook eyes. How did you photograph this fly? Reminds me of Lance's images.

Boris wrote:Nice fly Jeff. Is the hook eye an experimental thing or did it just take your fancy. I've seen salmon flies done that way without hook eyes. How did you photograph this fly? Reminds me of Lance's images.

Hook needed some form of eye or snelled on tippet as I cut it down from a streamer length hook of about 5XL and threw the rest of the shank and eye away. They are cheap and nasty hooks like the Jarvis Walker bulk packs or some such that you find in Kmart and the likes, the label has peeled off the container so I am not sure of origin.
The image is a flatbed scan of the fly cropped and altered a little. Still not happy with the process and nowhere near as nice as the results Lance is getting.

Mataura Mayfly, Howdy;

Jeff, Lance has been doing the scanner longer than you have,
fear not mate, you'll get it soon !

hank