Wilted Spinach variant

[gingerdun]

Carl and Bill, these look great. Thanks for contributing new ties to the conversation. Let us know if you have a chance to test this pattern. Seems like it ought to work, but the trout will decide.

[William Anderson]

Fellas, this is as good as it gets. What a cool thread. I'm dying to get to the vise and offer up something myself. Nicely done, all.

Carl....magnificent.

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[Ron Eagle Elk]

Carl,

Lovely wee fly.

[Kelly L.]

Killer looking flies!

[Smuggler]

Had to get in on this, the tails are a little hard to pick up, sorry for that. Tried to find a suitable surface that wouldn't reflect so much light.

[Old Hat]

Smuggler that looks super. I am having a hard time telling though if you dubbed the head red or if the angle of the picture just makes it seem that way. Great idea if it is so.

[Smuggler]

It's a red angora dubbed head.

[William Anderson]

It's a red angora dubbed head.

That's a nice touch and a great looking version.

[tie2fish]

As William suggests, the dubbed red head is a vey nice touch. I've noticed that quite a few of the old "classic" American wet flies from the Mary Orvis Marbury era had heads of dubbed red wool.

[Ron Eagle Elk]

Well, Folks. The Wilted Spinach Variant that I tie too two nice rainbows and a ........okay the third fish was a whitefish. On the Madison, just upstream from Cabin Creek. Got all three fish landed and released within 45 minutes. Not a bad way to spend a few minutes after dinner.

Newest version, yet to be tested has a body of purple, yes, purple, Ice Dub. Purple has been a very good color this year on the Madison.