Hello everyone.

I love the looks of hair wings on Wolfe style dry flies. I tied up half a dozen and thought they looked pretty good.

I then moved on to Klinkhammer Specials. It took me a dozen of those to get them to where I was satisfied. (I admit I'm way too fussy with my tying! But now I can tie a mean Klinkhammer!) Then I tied a dozen more.

I took another look at those Wolfe type flies and am not satisfied. Nope. Not at all.

My problem is that I don't have a good idea how 'tall' the wings should be. Are they tied so the hair tips are even with the hackle or are the wings longer than the hackle? If the wings are too long won't the fly tip over under their weight? What lenght should I be shooting for? Hair tips even with the hackle look too short to me.

I know the fish don't care and I shouldn't either, but we all have something that we are anal retentive about!

Charlie