... for the oldest known mayfly nymph?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoephemera_antiqua
Ed
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... for the oldest known mayfly nymph?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoephemera_antiqua
Ed
I think Harrison Ford may tie them.................
Use a pheasant tail.
Extinct mayfly, don't know if trout memories go back that far...................:)
Larry ---sagefisher---
Pheasant tail body, Cheez-It wing!
Oh no...now we will have to put another branch in the tree of fly tying topics....Archeological Fly Tying. People will start trading fossils of exctint bugs and the swaps will begin to see who can tie the bestlooking extinct fly.
Interesting.....I like it!!
Do we need extinct bird feathers and extinct animals' fur to tye it too? Oh, are we to tye this pattern on some type of bird or animal bone? 2xh, 2xl I'm guessing.
Allan
with 6" teeth and beady eyes. I know you have a thing for beady eyed nymphs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Betty Hiner
This fly in my collection is the oldest know fly to exist. It belonged to Otzi, the frozen mummy they found in the Alps. He had a copper axe-head and the remnants of a fly-rod with him, and a mouse-fly hooked in his fur fishing vest.
This mouse was unknown to science, since they were all eaten by the big cats of the age. So they named this particular period the Mice-o-zoic Age in honor of this ancestor of all modern mice. He was a bad little dude by his own rite, and his scientific name is Rodentia Balonicus, the Saber-tooth Mouse:
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What did Otzi fish for? Browntisauruses
Don thats just great