Pale Watery Flymph

[Mataura mayfly]

A bit like tjd, the last thing I need is a new dubbing material....... but that silk sure looks interesting, especially in the wet shot of the other pattern.
Many of our Caddis lava look shiny/translucent and an off white/cream colour, very similar to your wet photographed pattern.
Nice work.

[Kelly L.]

You make it sound easy. Without animated knots, I would be up a creek....lol. I am not elderly yet, but I do have shaky hands, and poor eyesight. I guess I'd better try to figure this one out before long.

Awesome flies posted on this thread. The knot info was interesting. I am knot challenged, so I don't think I will be trying that one...lol.

It's actually a very easy knot to tie -- just thread the hook, tie a slip knot, and pass the fly through the slip knot. The ease is one of its virtues. (The other is that you have straight line connection to the shank of the hook.) One of the reasons we use turned up or turned down eyes is to help keep the loop of the knot behind the eye. The down side of the knot is that it doesn't hold as well in nylon leaders as it did in gut.

Although I hate to refer anything serious about fishing back to "The Movie", watch the "haunted by waters" scene at the very end of A River Runs Through It
Arnold Richardson (old man version of Norman) ties on a elk hair caddis using a Turle knot. I've always thought that this was nice touch because:

1) It's the knot that would have been used in the character's use (and was probably the knot Arnold Richardson used when he was a kid)
2) It a an appropriate knot for an elderly man with shaky hands, since it's easy to tie.

Haunted by waters