Nice flies and discussions guys. I do get pretty particular with flies myself at times. It is mostly for me though not the fish. Other times I tie very basic and simple and find those ties work best. Especially after they get knarled up from catching a few fish. Fishgalore I couldn't agree more. For dry fly and emerger patterns, I found body color was most important for matching what's out there. Otherwise my most successful dries were finished off with a neutral hackle and a single post wing of z-lon mainly for my eye to see. I would often snip the bottom hackle fibers once done to let the head of the fly sit lower in the water... emergers were always just a simple dubbing wrapped body, single post wing pointing back and finished off with a dubbed head. It was flies like these that I enticed way more sips with rather than the fancy book recipes for dry flies...
Well I played around with the dragonfly pattern. I really like just sitting down at the bench and letting the imagination wander. Bass are pretty dumb really, so I'm pretty sure one of them will eat these . They're pretty big by my standards but, my 5 wt TFO Axiom has plenty of gas to drive these.Fun stuff anyway.RG
Hey we could start a new argument thread...."Carp Are Smarter Than Bass" RG
Hey we could start a new argument thread...."Carp Are Smarter Than Bass" :rotflol:RG
Carp are smarter than some of the people I work with. Nice looking flies RG.