Long Cress

[NJTroutbum]

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This pattern is my all-purpose Cress Bug / Scud pattern for most all of the local limestone and Spring Creeks I frequent. It's a simple to tie, quickly reproducible & effective must-have for my box. Tied in sizes 14-18 and in both natural and olive Hare-tron,

For the full tying video click on the link below:

http://ralphsflybox.blogspot.com/201...ong-cress.html

[Ray Kunz]

My memory could be completely off but is this not an old pattern from Frank Sawyer in England that Lee Wulff popularized here and called something like "the killer bug"?

[NJTroutbum]

Ray, you've got me. Never saw the pattern.

[Joe Billingsley]

Here is Sawyer's Killer Bug, at least Orvis' version.

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Joe