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    Woodcock & Green
    Hook: Kamasan B175 #12-16
    Thread: Benecchi 12/0, black
    Hackle: Woodcock marginal wing covert
    Rib: Wire, copper dark
    Body: Coarse dubbing, dyed medium-light olive - in split thread


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    Nice, Hans. Have you fished it as a Baetis, caddis, or general searching pattern?

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    Quote Originally Posted by lastchance View Post
    Nice, Hans. Have you fished it as a Baetis, caddis, or general searching pattern?
    Generic caddis pupa, and also as a scud/generic food item.

    I have other patterns more suitable for mayfly emergers/stillborns and drowned duns/spinners.

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    A couple days ago I fished a starling and green in about 16 for grayling and it was ridiculous! The fish were there on every cast and they destroyed the fly. It continued to fish though there were three hackle barbs and a nub of green thread left at the last of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hap View Post
    A couple days ago I fished a starling and green in about 16 for grayling and it was ridiculous! The fish were there on every cast and they destroyed the fly. It continued to fish though there were three hackle barbs and a nub of green thread left at the last of it.
    Great fun when you are in that zone, is it not?

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    Oh, it was very good. The water was at least a foot higher than I have ever seen it there and tannin-colored... As a result the fish were beautiful! Deep purple and blues with lots of red along the dorsal fin edge. And some were well into the "large" category...
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    Quote Originally Posted by hap View Post
    As a result the fish were beautiful! Deep purple and blues with lots of red along the dorsal fin edge.
    Art,

    The dorsal fin edge on arctic grayling glistening in the light is one of the finest views ever

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    Hans,
    Where do you find the time to fish all these patterns, and what water?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Byron haugh View Post
    Where do you find the time to fish all these patterns, and what water?
    Hi Byron,

    Simple question, elaborate answer.

    Forty-odd years of fishing/tying, three continents, own patterns as well as originated by others, and some that await being fished.

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    Now Hans I know that's not true! You can't be that old! That would make you older than me (and I feel very old just now).
    Cheers,
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