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Byron,

That fly is really classy.

I wanted to mention a thought I've had about Variants. I've never seen it written, but my guess has been that the Variant hackle is oversized because, if it weren't, the wing (as represented by the...

Remembering of course, that wings, tails and hackle used by the legendary catskill fliers were all longer, relative to the hook size, than usually described in most modern books.

There's obviously some level where things are so different that you don't have a variation, you have a separate fly. A couple of years ago, there was a post here over whether if you use only grizzly...

Looks to me like Allan's post on page 2 of the Whitcraft thread was a decent question of when is a fly so different from another that it deserves the adjective variant rather an entirely new name. ...

Beautiful fly as always.

With the caveats that I haven't read the book and don't know which other thread to which you refer, I'd offer up that there are Variants and Variants.

My understanding...