Sparse Grey Matter

Hi, Tom, it is a dry that will stick in the surface and stay there for maybe ten seconds so it will cover a fish on a quick smooth flow, dropping through the surface as the trout comes up to meet it. it is an upstream wet/dry, as was the original, tail-less. I tied it like this as I reckon the origi...

Happy New Year, all
Roy

Merry Christmas, my friends


Roy

Dunno, Mark.
What I do know is that if all tickets get sold,
the draw will be in the following 24 hours
So since the draw has not been held, there should be some left.
Max ten, so go gettem scout and pull that draw closer

All in an excellent cause
Thanks,
Roy

Nominations for typographical error of the year

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Mark, you have just made my day
I almost wish I'd written that, but no,
I bow to your superior skills, sir


Cheers, best wishes to Misa,
Roy

Jim Slattery wrote:Forum is back up.

And fine and dandy,
thanks for the heads - up Jim

willowhead wrote:redietz, gimme somma what you got. .....Kock-Out! fly Nik.

I was almost that excited myself

Nik - How did you make the wing? I'm a bit unclear about what Edmonds&Lee meant: "Wings - From a quill feather from a Partridge's tail, greyish in tone, the top side of the feather as the under side of the wing." The picture in Brook & River Trouting looks folded, but I'm unclear on this. It's also...

GEM Skues He stood against the idiocy of the English dry fly purists in that he fought to put the soft hackled nymph alongside the dry fly. He fought for the use of sunk flies to represent nymphs in the surface film. He outlined the case for light short rods and silk lines. He explored underwater vi...