A fly for your comments

[Byron haugh]

Hi,

What do you think of this fly?


Photo by Hans Weilemann
His web site: www.danica.com/flytier/

[NewTyer 1]

Is it a dry fly or wet fly? Either way, it looks nice

[Allan]

Haystack with different dubbing. Also, not sure if the tail/wing clump is deer or something else? Nice colors.

Allan

[NewTyer 1]

That's what I was thinking also. That's why I asked about it being wet. Just doesn't seem like it will float well

[Allan]

NewTyer,

Hey, put a glob of Gehrke's Gink on any fly and it'll float, LOL.

Allan

[flyfisher7]

Spread the wing out to 180 degrees and it will float quite nicely.

[John Rhoades]

The quality of the tie and the materials used do not appear to be your norm. That's the biggest barb on a hook I've seen in awhile.

[Hans Weilenmann]

The quality of the tie and the materials used do not appear to be your norm.

That may be because it is not Byron who tied that fly. It is a Fran Betters' tied Haystack - and it is one tied in his later years, not that long before he died. I know this because I have the actual fly, one of a set of Fran's flies kindly provided to me by a friend who obtained them off Fran direct, and took the photograph.

That's the biggest barb on a hook I've seen in awhile.

Not the most elegant of hooks, I agree, and that indeed is some deep cut barb

For this Haystack's details, the rest of the set and some background, go here:

http://www.danica.com/flytier/fbetters/fbetters.htm

Cheers,
Hans W

[Steven]

Hilarious.

[WarrenP]

In case no one has noticed on the "set" of flies posted, each one either has a red or orange head which relates to another post about using red or orange for the head which I feel produces more "strikes" for me.