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by William Anderson » Mon May 10, 2010 12:51 pm
This is a good question and it's great to see new faces with such an interest in the actual nuances of these flies. The way I see it is...there are wingless wets, and these include a very wide variety of wet flies, without the wings, and representing a lot of different things. They might have a herl body, a wire body, a dubbed body, silk body, tensil, combinations of these or bodies wrapped with plastic grocery bag pieces and they all have a very wide variety of hackles including hair hackles. The thing for me that helps refine the conversation about flymphs is the body dubbing method. It's hard to put any of the other flies in the same camp as those tied with the shaggy, dubbed body using a dubbing loop or something that achieves a similar effect. The movement of the body itself plays a part in the definition of the flies behavior. They all catch fish, and they are all interesting, but when I think of the flymphs, its not so much the hackle wraps, but the body. And then there is a lot of gray area in there and its all interesting.
w
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