scg,

thanks for the encouragement, cliff and scottp gave me some good advice on posting pictures, i owe them one, and greatly appreciated their help. as for the wired pt it is in my plans

jd,

thanks for the comment. the zug bug pattern is an old one, that served me well as a caddis nymph. when i started updating my flies to using the jig style hooks, i never could get the proportions right with wings, coverts or anything else on the top side of the hook, so i started leaving those things off and leaning towards a soft hackle/flymph appearance. hasnt seemed to affect my fish count