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It doesn't work all of the time, but I've had a fair amount of success fishing this nymph (size 12/14) in tandem with a smaller, imitative nymph (16/18/20) on point.

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I'll second the vote for Widow's Web. I is easy to work with, comes in a variety of colors and it floats very well - it doesn't hold as much water between the fibers as some of the other synthetics.

I often fly fish from a canoe. On busy water, I float from spot to spot and then wade fish. I easier water, I am comfortable fishing while the canoe drifts. Trick number one is to pay attention to...

John Mundinger, Helena, MT
I have been paddling a canoe for as long as I can remember. My grandfather introduced me to a canoe when I was pretty young. I think of him just about every time that I...

Thanks to Al and Gretchen for sharing the instructions for tying the Quick N'EZY.

I have not tied many of those. But, since first discovering your pattern, I have used a technique that I adapted...

I'll second the paraglen

There is a description for tying this fly in the 2005 archives. It is called a stacked hair wing hopper.

http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/fotw2/shwhfly.jpg

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I actually first started tying this pattern as a midge. Here is a sample.
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Benjo - thanks. Btw, tied in size 10/12 with a sparsely dubbed hare's ear abdomen, a peacock thorax and a medium dun hackle, it might be an effective fly on the Clark's Fork in the spring - i.e....

The photo must be hosted someplace else on the web before you can post them here. A couple of free hosting services are Myfishingphotos and photobucket. Upload the photo to that site. Then, click...

I do a split tail on many of my dries, but use a bit different method. When dressing the shank, I leave a small thread bumb at the bend. I then take a hackle feather, pull an equal number of barbs...

The following article was in this morning's Helena paper. It might be of interest to those who have a preference for fishing cane.
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Peter - nice fly.

As an alternative to the method that you described, have you tried stacking two marabou feathers together and then, after tying in the tail, spinning the butt ends in a dubbing...

Instead of wax, I use a little Mucelin when I dub my dry flies. It is better than licking my fingers and adds a little floatant while I am tying my flies.

Thanks, Benjo. If you have the patience to stack and clean that much hair, you might try the October caddis variation on a 3x #6 during the salmon fly hatch

Chris - imho, Widows Web is the superior material for yarn indicators. Peter Frailey did a nice article on the material. It includes a picture of the indicators that I use.
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Here is what the Missouri River looked like this morning. Note the lack of snow. Also, you don't see them in the picture, but the ground squirrels are out.
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I have no idea how to do the math, but there are at least two problems with the above calculation. First, it fails to include any correction for the lack of atmosphere. More problemmatic is the...