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Jay,

In the context of flies, the word 'variant' has 2 grammatical functions and has 2 meanings.
1) It can serve as an adjective as in "That fly has a slightly different wing". - var?i?ant...

Byron,

Nice fly.
However, and just asking, when does tying a specific pattern with some different looking material not just a similar substitution, a change in the shape (or 'variance'), or added...

Reading the entire letter from Carmichael I wonder, and I'm just asking, was he a fly tyer or did he just get some ideas that he wanted incorporated into what he thought might be a good or better...

Okay, I just read the passage you refer to. You should read it over again. Carmichael wrote that he had Don Martinez tye up a fly that incorporated the materials you mentioned. He(Carmichael) named...

Interesting. When I started tying, my first fly tying book was the FAMILY CIRCLE GUIDE(1954) and I tyed every fly in it, including the 'Whitcraft'. The listing has a somewhat different recipe for the...