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The design is meant to be a generic one - just adapt size and materials to match the mayfly you wish to imitate. I just have a soft spot for the Flav - so picked that one for the video.

Cheers,...

Beg to differ. Yes, hackle may appear same, but it is less durable, and because material stubs are tied down at the eye the head becomes larger. There are other advantages also. Enough to make it a...

Ed,

The Netherlands have so much surface water, you'd be hard pressed to stand anywhere and not have some form of water in your sight.

Folks often think that most of the protect-from-flooding...

Byron,

One of the ways I spell "flytying" is C-H-O-I-C-E-S. One needs to have a choice, in order to be able to make a choice.

There are often several ways to skin any flytying "cat". I choose...

I fish these emergers dead-drift in the film - so yes, as a dry is most often fished.

Cheers,
Hans W

View from below is the same, and it makes for slightly easier tying (trimming the Ice Dub strands to length before the lemon woodduck barbs are tied in).

Cheers,
Hans W

The Flavio imitates the emerging Small Western Green Drake (Drunella Flavilinea) - commonly referred to as simply "Flav". The Flav hatch is an important hatch in the western USA, generally taking...