Richard,
That recent fly you showed us is one neat looking fly. Cool idea. Much better than sliding a "Twister Tail onto your hook!
I’ll be tying up a few of them this winter for next spring/summer. Can’t wait to slip one alongside some lillies and weedlines.
I also might add a mono weed guard for the times I want to go into the lillies and weeds a ways.
Cool fly. I like it!
Jeremy.
I also will give a hearty second to that compliment !!! Very nice job of tying Richard. I will certainly try this pattern, & already know before I tie it onto the leader that a trophy will come tearing out of the weedbed (definetely better use a weed guard & extra tough leader…like spiderwire) !!!
Jeremy,
I just posted on “Fly Tying” about the Hard-Hackle Worm and my test of it today on trout. I scaled everything down and tied it on a #10 streamer hook and caught several trout on it with one being a 17" rainbow! Great fly! I tied up 4 more when I got home and plan to experiment with it in larger sizes to see if I can fool some of our larger brown trout. I tied the tail in with them forming a “fork” instead of one on top of another and I think tied this way it looks very much like a crawfish. Thank you very much for sharing that pattern.
Warren
Warren,
I read your post and grinned. Glad you had a good ending to your day with it. I was thinking to myself that maybe you should’ve started using it earlier in the day? Just a thought. But most likely you were fishing as you you usually do and gave this a try as a final offer before leaving…
Anyway, the cudos goes to the designer, Rich. Komar. I liked it enough to tie a bunch in a swap! and it’s my kind of fly to tie…easy!!
Jeremy.
I tied one up to try this weekend, and gave it a go today.
Well, it was getting hit as soon as it touched the water, then I spooked the fish. I moved to a different area and started throwing it into the top of a sunken tree. Got me 5 or 6 gills in the 8 and 9 inch range. They sure out a bend in the 3wt! 
Grin on my chin too! Fat little footballs. Must be porking up for the winter. Then one that felt a bit larger than the rest yanked the line out of my hand and dived into the tree. Hooked me up in there and I had to break off. Just after I felt him get away too. I was then angry I had only tied one. Had to switch to something else that didn’t get as many hits.
Great fly! Gonna be tying me some more of those!!
Don
Hello Jeremy, Warren, Don and Mr JML,
Thank you kindly for all the compliments. It pleases me immensely when I hear other flyfishers have had success with my fly patterns.
Jeremy, the HHW will not twist your line as you have noted. And a mono weedguard is just the ticket for thick vegetation.
Warren, interesting idea to tye the HHW as small as a 10. I will have to try it. Most of my warmwater flies are 6, 10 and 14s (I skip sizes). I have tied the tails in as a side-split fork, no eyes. I call it my Hard-Hackle Seaducer, probably my all-time most productive fly. Yes, with the hackle tied that way, it can be a worm, a frog, a crawfish, or a minnow.
Don, you had to switch to something that wasn’t getting as many hits! Wow! I wish I had more days like that! But even if you lose the HHW, it only takes three steps and three materials to make another.
Another fly of mine, the Leech-Mouse, only takes two steps and two materials. The most vicious strikes I have had came on a Leech-Mouse.
Some of you may be familiar with my debut fly, the Hard-Hackle Spider. Stay tuned for a much improved version, the 3G Hard-Hackle Spider, only on FAOL!
Thank you again for all the kind words.
Cheers,
Richard
Plano TX
Richard,
The “Twister Tail” I was referring to is the bait that’s called a “Mr. Twister” and variations of it. The “Twister tails” are actually a soft molded tail that one threads onto a hook as a trailer. Most popular with hardcore bass fishers.
It has a fat body and a squiggly “twister” tail. Good attractor addition to hardware.
Jeremy
[This message has been edited by Jeremy (edited 08 November 2005).]