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Re: Black Gnat - Leisenring
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:00 pm
by letumgo
Mark - could you repost your link? I can't get it to work for some reason.
This has been such a great thread.
Re: Black Gnat - Leisenring
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:26 pm
by Soft-hackle
Re: Black Gnat - Leisenring
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:25 pm
by redietz
William Anderson wrote:Mark, I should have looked back beyond the North Country school to the winged wets, where most were derived. I was just looking a more contemporary relative to Leisenrings fly. Of course you're right about the UK flies. But I wonder what Big Jim was trying to imitate in Eastern PA? Just a curiousity. I wonder if Jim Slattery has any insight from the Hidy notebooks.
Sometimes they just want a black fly, simply because it's easy to see in the water. The more I fish, the more I realize that not every artificial has to imitate a specific insect.