Ray.
Your fly looks great and retains that classic hopper shape with both the body and the head. Is that head/ collar just squirrel in a dubbing loop? Super cool.

This should work! Sorry, Ray. I didn't realize my cell phone photos were so large.

Best way to fish the terrestrials, no? Tail of guinea body dyed red - about a hook gap in length. body of one ply of chartreuse green yarn. rib of yellow gimp wing olive dun antron yarn split in half, tied in then doubled over tied again length to half of tail over wing of mallard flank dyed yellow ...

Thanks for the welcome. I'm glad to see this forum up and kicking again. Long may it reign! I think I'm sort of acquainted with about half of the regular posters on here through the internet. Good company. I grew up in Michigan so the first time I was able to try drop shot nymphing I thought, wow, t...

Hello everyone ! It seems I'm a bit late to this party, but here goes. First off re: Team of flies but no droppers. I've never tried it but it would seem to have the advantage that the fly could be attached anwhere on the leader. The method I used to use was to use one of the tags of a blood knot. M...