Originally Posted by
herefishy
When you say variant dry fly style, do you mean kind of long and sparse? If you tie the hackle this way, do you add a feather wing, or not use any material to represent the wings except the long hackle?
A variant would have longer palmered hackle and usually absent a separate wing.
See these examples:
http://www.orvis.com/store/product.aspx?pf_id=90KH
http://www.flyofthemonthclub.com/sto....asp?item=1206
Regards,
Silver
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