How are your tying skills coming along? Do you realize how far you’ve
progressed since we started this series? Hopefully you’ve been
practicing enough so that each new challenge is easier than you thought
it would be. This session, we’ll start with something familiar and
progress to a new challenge.
We’ve already tied a standard dry fly, split tails a couple of ways and
tied a thorax fly. What if we tied a fly that has a split tail, hackle
trimmed like a thorax fly and a thorax fly wing, but positioned the wing
and hackle closer to the front of the hook like it is in a standard dry
fly? Would that be considered unconventional? Of course it would, but
then again, I’m a little unconventional anyway, so let’s do it.
Originally published c. July 4, 2008 on Fly Anglers Online by Al Campbell.