Not sure if this is a stone or a stimulator. Not that it couldn't be either.
Let me know what you think.
Thanks, Byron
http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/...IMG_2892-1.jpg
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Not sure if this is a stone or a stimulator. Not that it couldn't be either.
Let me know what you think.
Thanks, Byron
http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/...IMG_2892-1.jpg
Up on the Au Sable River in Michigan that would be called a "Mattress Thrasher"!
Essentially a Improved Sofa Pillow variant...oh yes, I guess some might call it a "Stimulator," but that's a different story...
Thrasher? Stimulator? I think that fly is one "Foxy Hooker".
Does anyone know if the name of Randall Kaufmann's dry fly was the 'Stimulator' or 'Simulator'? I've heard both names at various times and I don't have any of the old Streamborn catalogs to check.
"Underwing" Stimulator
Interesting history...
http://stevenojai.tripod.com/stim.htm
Also like that variation - The Mini Hot - developed by Greg Garcia:
http://www.charliesflyboxinc.com/fly...m?parentID=181
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Allan, It's called a Stimulator in Kaufmann's "Tyjng Dry Flies" (1991). That fly looks like the offspring of Brooks Stone meets Stimulator.
Allan, part of the confusion might be because Randall also had a fly called the Simulator, which was a simplified stonefly nymph.
Byron, I wouldn't really call that fly a Stimulator since it lacks the Palmered thorax.
Jay,
When I tied this fly, I was thinking of the Soffa Pillow Stonefly as well as the Stimulator and this is what resulted.
Byron
Perhaps it is something like Marcella's Trout Fly?:
http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/...psb5a43739.jpg