[b]I was never happy with the picture I posted.
It was too pallid for a fly that is quite bright.
Also my French was incorrect, don’t know
why I made it plural.
Very nice Don. I’ll take 12 dozen to help catch our elusive Wisconsin trout. I am sure they would take some new fly hook,line, and sinker quite voraciously. Have a smooth day and tight lines!
Ray,
The wire is the body and the rib,
the wire is wound down the hook in touching turns, starting near the eye
wound towards the bend and then wound in open turns back over the previous
turns towards the eye. The thorax is then dubbed on and the hackle wound.
I found a stockist that carries all the colors of ultrawire and have placed an order, including the wine color. We can never have enough “stuff”, can we?
Ron,
I’ve only been using the wire on spiders since I saw William Anderson’s flies a couple of months back, but I think it makes good sinking flies, DaveS idea for salmon and steel-head flies is an excellent one. The idea of weighting the flies
this way is more appealing to me than beads.
They do look good and the fluo colours would be good on sea-trout salmon flies on this side of the pond.
The ‘Coq-au-vin’ was my own contribution and I am quite proud of it.;)