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Box being tracked! ETA: Tuesday April 4th, anticipation index: 9.9 :bugeyes:

Box arrived! Will be shipped out Saturday UPS to Old Hat

Box being tracked! ETA: Tuesday April 4th, anticipation index: 9.9 :bugeyes:

Have I told you guys how much I hate Henrys fork hoppers?!?!?! :wallbash:

Hey there Shawn,

I was at Jimmy's last Saturday watchin you tye. I was diggin this fly and a few of the others you tyed. Nice job bro!

Heck, I'd post my recipe if it'll make you happy!

Snow shoe rabbit fur and thread.

"There are you happy?!?!?! :bugeyes: Need a step by step? :dunno: Huh do yah? Well you ain't gettin one! its far to complicated and time intensive! :bs: BWAHAHAHAHAHA! :hyst: Just kidding, just kidding" he mutters and kackles :ban: as he shuffles off to his fly tying room picking feathers and bits of deer hair from his head, gesticulating wildly :butt: at no one in particular.....

I'm in, with one of Fran's "the usual " variants. A guy tying at Jimmys a few weeks ago related that Fran would tye "the usual" not only in orange, but in olive, tan and brown. I'll be tying an olive variant with a summer foot (dun colored) to represent a BWO.

sent my invite out so we'll know fairly soon where this will go after me.

OK I accepted Eastern Flies invite. I have material I need to get rid of for sure! Thing is, I don't think I cn do the 3 day turn around. I commute an hour each way to my job, meaning I am gone from 6:45 to 5:45 every day of the week. I can send out my box on a saturday, but during the week is out of the question. what sayeth the SM?

Alright! Horseshoe twisted my arm, and I'm in! Considering I'm about fifty miles from the namesake river for this fly they'll be "regionally authentic." of course there will be a little freakstyle in there somewhere, just not tellin where I'll do that, but I know y'all will be diggin it come august.

Heck I'd fish the first and the second! If your fishin it in "salmonfly water" the turbulence and speed of the fly as it drifts is so dern fast that the fish don't have time to examine your fly that intensely. I'm getting educated in big stones and a river thats quite a stonefly factory (Henry's fork and South fork Snake, and I can tell you a rubber legged brindle bug kills em just as well as an exact replica in the pre hatch stage of the salmonfly emergence.

Thicken up the area just behind your skull, some red hen hackle or chickabou to simulate gill flash and maybes some pheasant tail church window pectoral fins? Like the fly overall, but I love marabou thats just how I roll (and tye)

Well, its not a bad start. Personally i don't like using bucktail for tailing material, but thats just me. Like you said, watch your thread wraps going over the curve of the hook.If it were me I would start your hackle where I see that single red thread wrap in the middle of the body and from that wrap point forward I would have dubbed and palmered the hackle to the head. As for the head itself it definitely needs some work. To get smoother wraps let your thread unwind so it lays flatter and therefore you get a smoother build up. I've been battling the same problem with the heads on my spey flies ( do a search for my flies in the database and you'll see what I mean) over all I like it, heck I'll fish it if you dont! LOL good tye bro.

Long plumed feathers (marabou, bird fur, schlappen, coque de leon, pheasant rump, etc) are usually used. A good bright selection of steelhead dubbing, some different flash materials, rabbit strips, jungle cock (good luck finding quality JC nails) a myriad of duck flank feathers and guinnea feathers as wll as wadington shanks. and octopuss hooks and some firewire or some other heavy test braided line for attaching stingers to you flies.

NICE!

Wazzup professor? Nice pinky!

Chinese necks are ok. I personally prefer saddle hackle. as for the curve, It also important to point out that thw wings should curve in, or touch for presentation tying but for a fishing fly they should splay outward to increase the action of the fly.

Someone somewhere installed a small shop vac with a chute in the desktop.........

What is the material you are using behind the bead? It looks like some woven diamond braid type stuff but without all the flash.

So have you had a chance to swing this bad boy yet?

Dang me! You just keep puttin out the best of the best! I'm followin you sir, thats for sure!

If its a silver rat why is the body done in gold? Just currious.

Great tye! Probably got its name from a guy that used to fish with a guy named Murray.After the guy would catch a few fish, his buddy Murray would yell over"What'd you catch him on?" The guy would yell back "Same thing Murray!"

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I concur! A material list and an additional pic from the bottom up or straight side view please. What is that back you're using?

Nice! I tye up a couple real similar I call bouncin bullets, cuz they git down so fast they practically bounce off the bottom! I use em as the middle fly in a 3 fly rig, with a soft hackle above and a weightless PT as the trailer. Really deadly set up!