Snipe and Gold

[chase creek]

Hook - Mustad 1575B, #12
Thread / Body - Pearsall's Antique Gold?
Hackle - Snipe (From Tail)

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[hankaye]

chase creek, Howdy;

Beautiful wee Bug you've posted !!!
You really are getting a lot of usage from those hooks.
They do have a nice profile, don't they?

hank

[tie2fish]

What a nice combination of colors, Rodger! To my eye, that snipe tail hackle resembles plover in color and marking.

[chase creek]

Thanks, Hank. I figure if you've got 'em, use 'em.
I put a comment below the picture, but it didn't make it thru the ether, I guess. - I wish Pearsall's would put the color number on the spools. Not sure which variety of gold that thread is.

[Kelly L.]

Lovely fly Chase Creek. I have the same gripe about notating the color on spools of thread, floss, and silk. That irks me to no end, when I am not sure which color is what. I wish all the thread and silk companies would read this message. I was just talking about this last night, with my local tying buddy.

[Old Hat]

Dainty tie with a BITE to it!

I agree with Bill, in the photo the hackle could pass for golden plover.

[narcodog]

OH, my my my.......

[Greenwell]

Nice fly!
Snipe Rump is the called for hackle in Edmond's and Lee's #8b March brown. It's a pretty feather with beautiful markings and much mobility. I have to concur that on your fly it could have been easily mistaken for Plover.

[Mataura mayfly]

Very nice.
Almost a regal elegance in such simple flies tied well.
Really liking the hackle colour.

[hankaye]

Howdy All;
Went to the refrence section to take a look at the Pearsalls chart that
Ray and Stefan put together and it's a victum of Soft-hackle's (Mark's),
website going off line http://flymphforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1863

hank