Some of you may recognize a pattern of me tying whatever Byron is posting :). I’m not trying to be a copy-cat but he just keeps posting such great flies with little twists that are new to me that I just have to try. Here is my floating nymph attempt but I seem to have messed up with the hackle. Mine ends up turning out more like a hackle stacker than the way it is shown in Byron’s post or drawn on Jason Borger’s site. Thanks for posting the link to Jason’s site too. It is a great site with lots of ideas and instructions. I read his instructions but messed up somewhere. I am sure the fly will work, but want to learn the technique. If anyone has any pointers, please share them I think I may have wrapped the hackle too far up the post for this technique but couldn’t seem to keep the hackle low on the post. Here they are. I also tried a curved shank hook to see how that would turn out. The last one is an attempt at doing the teqnique with a soft hackle instead of a dry fly hackle. I kind of like how it turned out, but again it is more of a hackle stacker-like pattern than I intended.
Those look good to me. You are better at keeping the fly sparse and “light” than me. I think that most of us over-dress our flies. Afterall, a mayfly is a very, very delicate insect. They look fine to me.
Thanks, but I feel like my hackle creeps up the post causing many of the fibers to stand above the fly instead of splaying outward. There are some fibers that will keep the fly floating in calm water but instead of a parachute looking hackle, I think my ties turned out looking more like incomplete hackle stackers. My execution of the technique needs some work I think.
I think I may have wrapped the hackle too far up the post for this technique but couldn’t seem to keep the hackle low on the post. Here they are. I also tried a curved shank hook to see how that would turn out. The last one is an attempt at doing the teqnique with a soft hackle instead of a dry fly hackle. I kind of like how it turned out, but again it is more of a hackle stacker-like pattern than I intended.
