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    Quote Originally Posted by teachmarkey View Post
    Two questions from a near rookie: 1. what does SHHAN stand for?
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    I believe its short for "Sally Hansons Hard as Nails" Polish
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    Quote Originally Posted by teachmarkey View Post
    2. what color combos would look good (if any) as a trout fly?

    When I mentioned salmonfly in the intro, I meant that as the name of the bug, the big, orangeish stonefly that's found out west







    not a fly to fish for salmon. The 3 big stones I've fished for trout out there are these, golden and skwalas (kind of a dirty olive/yellow); haven't cracked the nocturnal stonefly yet so no info. For the golden stone, I'd use goldenrod foam (tan in a pinch) and either grizzly dyed tan or ginger/grizzly mix hackle. For the skwala, I had good luck with olive foam (even though it didn't really match the body of the fly) in this pattern






    I'd guess for the Bird you could use dun hackle for the body and dun/grizz for the head (olive dyed grizzly would work, too).

    Regards,
    Scott
    Last edited by ScottP; 10-31-2013 at 07:40 PM.

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