Early Season Dries

[peregrines]

Great guys, glad you're both in.

[luked]

hey mark can you change my Hairwing to a size 18

[brandy]

well im glad you guys jumped in on this one. There for a minute I thought I was gonna get the same 12 flies back.

[peregrines]

But Brandy, they'd be great looking flies....

[Kerry Pitt]

LOLOL Luked, you can be one too!!

[luked]

Originally Posted by Kerry Pitt

LOLOL Luked, you can be one too!!

thanks buddy

[brandy]

Originally Posted by peregrines

But Brandy, they'd be great looking flies....

HAHA...yes mark you are right, they would be great flies. Now if I could only tie more that come out like that.

[Jimmie]

LOL, may God have mercy on my soul too, Kerry. I'm wading into deeper water.
The granddaddy fly from the father of American dry fly fishing, Theodore Gordon.
I'll do the "Quill Gordon", size 14. Early April hatch in the East. Can't find if we have a hatch of the Quill Gordon in the West.
Here's a little reading. Enjoy.

"In 1890, when Gordon turned 36, American fly fishermen were still wedded to the wet fly. Gordon fished wet too, but unlike many of his fellows, he fished upstream, and he noticed that trout would take the fly avidly in the few moments that it floated at the beginning of a cast. This prompted him to write to F.M. Halford, who responded by sending him a packet of dry flies. Gordon soon discovered that there were two problems with Halford's flies: first, they imitated English insects; and second, they were designed for the smooth currents of English chalk streams, rather than the rush and tumble of the Neversink. He had some help from G.E.M. Skues, who sent him quantities of capes, but in the end Gordon began to design his own patterns, using stiffer hackles than his English models. His most famous pattern was the Quill Gordon, the fly that gave American fly-tiers the confidence to break away from the shadow of the English school. Theodore Gordon also experimented with what may have been the first hairwing fly pattern in the late nineteenth century. His intention was to tie a better pike fly, but he found, incidentally, that the pattern would catch other game fish, including salmon."

Thanks to Mark for all of the help that he gave me in the background.

[futuramille]

Mark, please put me down for a dozen #16 CDC bubble grannom.

[futuramille]

12 of these R ready to go in the mail

#16 CDC Bubble Grannom - Mcphail pattern
Hook: TMC100 #16
Thread: Brown 8/0
tail: green foam ball
body: beaver
wing: Brown cdc, Deer hair