I'm sure I've shared this years ago but this pattern first came to my attention when I saw David Whiltshire tying this fly in 2008, about the same time I saw Hans posting flies with this wire body where the wire is wrapped in touching turns from the thorax and then ribbed back to the thorax. Then I recalled seeing Martin Westbeek tying this pattern in a variety of shades in 2006. I adapted/adopted the pattern around 2009. It's the same construction technique we can see from Nemes silk bodies on his spiders from the 80's.
And with that, the Starling and Copper with a natural mole thorax. This is my most productive version. I use Uni-wire in Amber and in this Copper Brown. Here's another post including this fly type. http://www.flymphforum.com/viewtopic.ph ... +and+amber
Starling and Copper
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