Hi Jeff,
I missed your FOTW in 2009, my eyes were at their worst then and I had problems useing my laptop. I had a cataract op after this in 2010 and never caught up on anything I had missed.
This picture is of a fly I tied for a Winter Steel-head Swap in Dec 2004. I dug it out of the archives when I put together a posting on another BB, recently. I dressed about 15 or 16 of these for the swap. No problems with my eyes then. Never mind, they are good enough at the moment.
Some of the important points about this version are the wrapping of one peacock herl up the body and then counter-wrapping with another down the body. This seems to prevent the rib, which was changed to flat floss strands, twisted to make a thinner rib, from burying its self in the herl body. I am glad I kept that picture, it came out very nicely.
ps Here is the swap page.
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/s...ead-Swap/page4
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