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Alan,
Your flies are always works of art and I enjoy seeing them. Sadly my area doesn't have much in the way of lake fishing for trout except for lake trout/char in one or two of our deeper reservoir, but shallow fishing there means less than 100 feet deep. That is a game for hardware, not fly fishing. Here the temperatures are too hot in the summer so our reservoirs are comfortable to swim in from June through September or into October, but they are not good for trout. But given the general lack of bitter cold and the tailwater stockers nature of much of our trout fishing, trout season never closes across the state although some waters are closed at certain times.
With the Interloper, is the palmered hackle only over the seal's fur, or does it extend all of the way back? I like bedding hackle stems into dubbing or wool to improve the durability of my flies, but will try to follow patterns. That doesn't mean I can't tie off, but not cut, the hackle after the tinsel and before I start dubbing. That way I lose only half of the palmered hackle if the stem breaks against the tinsel. Although I don't know who I'm kidding. With my lousy casting and the waters I fish, flies seldom have a chance to wear out except from weathering up a tree.
I may look into getting some seal's fur when I find myself feeling flush with surplus cash.
Regards,
Ed
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Just over the dubbed section of the fly. I find it easiest to tie the rear half complete then the front half. If you extend the tinsel and rib slightly, and I mean slightly over half way you can dub from the halfway point and the joint doesn't show.
Cheers,
A.