Well done with your ties.
How did you tie the hackle in?
Partridge and grouse can be tied in tip first for spiders. There's a good explanation of that technique in Robert Smith's North Country Flies.

The one I've found most useful for smaller hackles is the basic Stonflo model. Your J. Dorin ones look nice William. Tim, I'm not sure what I would do if I ever wore out the J Dorins I use. I have half a dozen and if I ever found them available again, I'd probably snag them. I haven't seen them in ...

The one I've found most useful for smaller hackles is the basic Stonflo model.

Your J. Dorin ones look nice William.

Nice going Wayne.
The garden can wait.

I don't know about heresy John but did you catch fish with it?

Thank you Ray and Hank. It's good to see flymphs tied again. Under Carl's nice Grey grizzly flymph, the photo posted by Lance of Pete Hidy's flymphs shows how bold the soft hackles are. They're long, up to 3X gape distance and there's numerous turns of hackle. By spiralling the tying thread back thr...

Great tying Karsten.
I'd be confident fishing any of those flies in larger water.
They're true to type and it's good to see the colour bleeding through in the bodies.
Top marks.
The photography is great too.

Nice tie Johnno.
Why did you call it Adair?

The usage I like, rather than strict rules goes like this. Wet flies have wings. Flymphs are constructed with separately spun bodies in the style of James Leisenring and Pete Hidy. Wingless wets are fished wet and don't have wings (!) Soft hackles can be any shit you like that uses softer hackles. T...

Golden plover skin for an immature wood duck? Who'd part with golden plover?
Sounds to me like a New Zealand colonial deal, your 240,000 acres for these 2 muskets .