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I thought some of you might like to see some very rare spider flies dressed by Vince Marinaro. All Marinaro flies are quite scarce but wet his wet flies are almost unknown. Of course Marinaro, the author of
A Modern Dry Fly Code and
In the Ring of the Rise will forever be associated with the floating fly but during the last few years of his life he became fascinated with soft hackled wet flies after he had access to the Henry Walbran Cooper/E.A. Bennett collection of flies and materials, which included the original John Swarbrick manuscript.
The patterns here appear to be Marinaro's own although the middle one looks like a rather full bodied Partridge & Orange. Notice the long tail on the bottom fly, which appears to be Pintail flank feather fibers. It also looks like the body is Condor Quill.
This was a rather hasty photo and I hope to do the flies better justice when I get a chance to re-shoot them.
