Thank you Alan! I can see this fly as being an absolute workhorse! Nice job on this one. You do mean FINE wire, and not SMALL, correct? I am gonna try some like that.
Mark, thank you for the comparison! The only thing I have really is Muskrat. I have a whole skin of it, and it will last me quite a while I would imagine! I am going to see about using substitutions where possible. (I have mole, but it is very short, as you know)
You are welcome. Two years of tying loch style flies and salmon flies are showing in that fly. I have tied much better.
Sorry I forgot the Light Snipe is also known as Snipe and Yellow. Primrose thread, and a snipe's under covert feather.
As to the wire. That is tied on a size 16 the wire is 0.2mm dia and would have been appropriate for about a size 12. Though that would have thrown the hackle out of proportion. (A lot of my old tying materials are in storage, that was the largest hackle I had. My choice was which did I want out of proportion. Fine wire would be better. Just looking through mt stock the finest that UTC do would be ideal, if I had it in gold. (Its strange I now have more wire than ever before and still can't put my hands on the one I need).
Cheers,
A.
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Thanks again for the info, much appreciated.
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