Spinners. Opinions, comments & critique

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Sorry for the delay. Here's an example of a spinner I tied and fished last weekend. This is for the Gray Drake spinner hatch - tied on a #12 2xl dry fly hook. Not the best photo, but hopefully you can see the nice slim profile and segmenting the quill body provides. They were good enough for the trout, so good enough for me!

 

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For reference, here's the real deal:

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Dave,

 

What is the thorax dubbed with?

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Standard "Orvis Spectrablend" dry fly dubbing in Rust. It is pretty much the same as any superfine dry fly dubbing.

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Also posted this in this month's "fly from the bench thread", but here is an inverted version of the fly I posted earlier: