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    Quote Originally Posted by dpenrod View Post
    tomato, tomatoe. who cares really? i have always thought of the crackleback as a dry fly that can be fished a variety of ways and the woolly worm as a nymph. have never fished the woolly worm as a dry and never intend to. i am sure you could fish it as a dry if you wanted. for that matter, how different is a woolly worm from a woolly bugger? i always tie my woolly worms with a red yarn tail. is a woolly worm without a tail a griffith's gnat?
    Agree totally!! I suppose if you tied in a couple of turns of white hackle at the eye you would have a bivisible......a what??
    Last edited by bobbyg; 03-14-2013 at 10:14 PM.
    When you can arrange your affairs to go fishing, forget all the signs, homilies, advice and folklore. JUST GO.

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