The patterns I have seen of these look really great, but I have seen them written up as being an "out of date" pattern in more than one place and only found 1 hit from a search of the forum here. Wondering if anyone ties and uses this type of fly - and what exactly makes a fly "out of date????" Is there a style that replaced this or something? Would love to see some from members on here...... if anyone makes them.

Thinking of making some up for river small smouth and maybe some smaller ones for crappie.

Thanks - Russ