Sparse Grey Matter

I just booked myself four days of fishing in one of Sweden's most reputable trout streams, hopefully we'll hit " duffers fortnight " just like last year when we had some massive Danica (Green Drake) hatches, and accompanying spinner falls. Quite the spectacle :D Of course this got me in the mood to ...

SgtMajUSMC wrote:David,

Nice looking flies, and a great photo, as well!

Tim

Thanks Tim, I'm glad you liked them. Fran Betters sure created some real interesting and innovative patterns..

/David S.

Yikes David, you're branching out... :| leaning just a bit away from Catskill classics here... :? be careful, could be a slippery slope... :P Nice ties, as always... ;) Thanks Ed, I do tie quite a few flies that are definitely not of Catskill origin, even the occasional bead-head nymph ;) Fran Bett...

I've been looking closely at those very "fishy" looking Fran Betters'- patterns posted by Eperous, some great looking dries that got me wanting some of my own. I tied me up some Ausable Wulffs, some Haystacks and a couple of Usuals for this summers fishing. Thanks for the inspiration Ed :) There's a...

Thanks Gents, I'm glad you liked it. It is a rather striking pattern this one, I'd love to catch a fish one one of these

/David S.

I got myself a new black Whiting Herbert Miner-cape in the mail today and thought I would try it out on an "Oriole". In "Fur, Feathers and Steel" Rube Cross lists the pattern as having " orange " wings, I think mine are perhaps a bit too red to suit Cross' recipe but that was the most orange hackle ...

Thanks gents, glad you find it to your liking I do quite a bit of emerger-fishing and I have found this style of fly quite effective. I also like Bob Wyatt's different emerger patterns, nice simple patterns that really catch.. /David S.

Joe,

Put me down for four UNI 8/0 in white whenever the machine is up and running again

/David S.

I've been playing around with these emergers for a while trying to incorporate the major traits of some of my favorite classic patterns. This one is basically the same type of fly as the Red Quill-emerger I posted some time back, but tied in the style of the Quill Gordon. The hook is a Partridge K14...

Ever since I found that article on fly-fishing by John McDonald's in that 1946 Fortune Magazine I've had a hankering for some nice classic wets. In the section of " Fancy Wet Flies - American and English " I found the "Professor", and in Ogden on Fly-Tying from 1887 I found the "Invicta". I like the...