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Bloody Snail

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 5:04 am
by Hans Weilenmann
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Bloody Snail
Hook: Tiemco 102Y #15
Thread: Benecchi 12/0, black
Hackle: Starling
Body: Narrow red plastic ribbon taken from a tomato bag, and a single strand of ostrich herl, dyed black, twisted into cord

Cheers,
Hans W

Re: Bloody Snail

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:08 am
by letumgo
Quite an interesting pattern. I've been seeing more mention of snails in fishing articles lately. Seems like they make a good source of food in stillwater fisheries.

Re: Bloody Snail

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 2:37 pm
by Soft-hackle
This fly as well, has that great deep red coming through. Nice work.

Mark

Re: Bloody Snail

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 3:46 pm
by Pat M
A very unique pattern Hans, I like it!