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Its funny that everyone is talking about fly patterns tonight, just today I did a how to for Chris's blog on my stonefly pattern. http://creekaddict.com/ This stonefly makes a good anchor and kills on high gradient free stone streams that I like to fish. Check it out and let me know what you think.
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Wow, that a nice one. It looks tooo advanced for a noobie like myself.
As you know, I love this pattern. ;D
It looks great. The funny thing is I have been looking for a good stone fly nymph.
I bet if you use yellow dubbing with black wire that would be a killer yellow stonefly.
The Kaufman Golden stone dubbing with black wire makes a killer golden stone! ;D
Looks really nice. Those rubber legs will surely attract some attention. Well tied.
Mark
Another thumbs up for that fly Nick!
That looks great - what are you using for the wing case? I'm tired of spraying turkey and getting mixed results.
Also, anecdotaly, though it doesn't look as nice, I find that I have a higher catch rate with barred rubber legs as opposed to solid - not certain if it is real or perceived, given the number of variables at play.
Funnily enough, I was seining the Housy last weekend and was amazed at the number of yellow stones that were around - also their size, mostly 10 to 12 with even smaller thrown in. I lost my one remaining yellow stone in a tree that day, so spent last night tying up some - tried loren's patten with hackle, we'll see how it works tonight.
I posted the complete how-to on his fly here. http://creekaddict.com/?page_id=130
He's using mottled thin skin for the case.