looks like a copy of Ray's book made it to your island. Very nice looking tie.

very pretty looking flies and tied just the way they should be. I wish mine were so neatly tied.

I remember reading about this pattern in Patrick's fly pattern book when I bought it in the mid-70's.

Good job Norm.

DUBBN wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 5:29 pm All I had to do is ask.

Twenty fish in one hole with this fly.


I had to tie a couple more.

The picture of the fly has a fish scale on the bend of the hook. I can at least see that good.

Norm, how is about the time I moved to central WA that FAOL stopped having the fishins up in Ephrata?

it's rare to have the head attached. Very small hackles are on the head and upper neck area. two thumbs up.

Just noticed it is a Marriner pattern.

that is the oddest rib wrap I've seen. One wrap. I wonder if this is in the old Roy Patrick's fly pattern book as it strikes me as a west coast pattern. Good job Norm. I'm slowly working my way thru what you posted earlier.

another memory lane walk for me here.

OH, you could have use a clothes pin as your thread weight as that's how i learned as a kid. Just had a brain activity (opposite of a fart) thought and wondered if hungarian partridge was being used at all for hackle back in the 50's-60's. I tied back then on the east coast and all I remember then w...