Good-looking fly, Wayne.

Great video, Ron. You have a very nice instructional style and the history behind the fly is excellent.

Mataura mayfly wrote:This one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV7k3epJfJY

Yep.

zen leecher wrote:what are the steps for the black spider? The only ones I've seen are in Dave Hughes book.

There's a Youtube video of Davie McPhail tying this pattern. If I wasn't so lazy (and at work), I would post the link.

Nice work, Ray! You could sell those. My wife bought me a folding wading staff a couple of years ago. I used to be very sure-footed, but I have had some balance problems the past couple of years. I took a couple of pretty nasty spills, but fortunately, I was on the bank at the time.

Really nice looking flies, Wayne. I would fish any of those in a heartbeat.

Not to take anything away from Ruard's fine pattern, talk about fishing books not holding your interest reminded me of the most boring fly fishing book I have attempted to read: "Fishing Dry Flies for Trout in Rivers and Streams," by Art Lee. Lee was the northeast field editor for Fly Fish...

Thanks Ron. I appreciate your endorsement.

I will be following this thread with interest, as I am taking the plunge on fluoro (at least for my nymphing set-up) this year. I have a 9 foot, fluorocarbon leader tapered to 2X. I plan to get spools of 3X and 4X fluoro, and use that to fashion a two-fly nymphing rig.

tie2fish wrote:

Hans Weilenmann wrote:Very nicely tied, John.

Cheers,
Hans W

Given the source, pretty much the ultimate compliment, I'd say.

Agreed. Thanks, Hans, and everyone else for the kind words.