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Still my favorite of the old flies. Tied on #12 Gamakatsu S10U dryfly hook. Nice hook but I'm not crazy about the tiny eye. Okay, using light tippet. Prefer this one with a straight eye, but wanted to play with the Gama. It is a killing fly on my home water in late Spring when good hatches of March Brown & Spotted Sedge occur simultaneously.

Nicely tied!

That's just lovely, Steve. Good to see your tying on the FF.

Fantastic pattern! I love the graceful profile and the way the colors/textures harmonize together.

How do you like to rig this fly in the spring? Are you fishing this with other flies, or by itself?

Perfect timing for this old dressing as a couple days ago, I did up a dozen more for next season. Nice fly to fish and fun to tie.

Beautiful fly! I think it would also swing well in the middle of Pale Duns!

joaniebo wrote: ↑Sun Dec 16, 2018 12:22 pm Perfect timing for this old dressing as a couple days ago, I did up a dozen more for next season. Nice fly to fish and fun to tie.

I'm envious. I have to ration the plover, only allowing myself a few of these a season. I guess when the feathers are gone I'll have to get on the Cookshill waiting list.

Roadkill wrote: ↑Sun Dec 16, 2018 12:44 pm Beautiful fly! I think it would also swing well in the middle of Pale Duns!

That hadn't occurred to me! oow That lit the lightbulb. Thanks! Now that you mention it I can see it.

letumgo wrote: ↑Sun Dec 16, 2018 8:03 am Fantastic pattern! I love the graceful profile and the way the colors/textures harmonize together.

How do you like to rig this fly in the spring? Are you fishing this with other flies, or by itself?

Ray, generally, I fish this one when trouts are visibly feeding on emergers, as a single, on a 12' leader. If the water is right I'll fish it like a dryfly, dead-drifted in the surface film -- but also quartered, drifted, swung, dangled, lifted, dropped back & stripped, possibly all of the above on a single cast, as water/fish require. A good pattern for swinging on a downstream approach. You can imagine those yellow plover tips flagging, begging a grab on the swing or dangle.

Beautiful Steve! That hook is pretty. I used to tie on Gama's, but I too gave them up because of the small eye on the smaller sizes.