I decided to put those 34007s I got from Rich a while back to good use the other day and forced myself to tie "bucktail" minnows (Yuck) with very, very SPARSE wings. I mean, wings with so few fibers (hand-stacked a bit) that you could count them.
-- They work pretty darn well afterall -- I suspect I disliked them because I tied them poorly. I'm a believer in the "Gartside principle", that fish are stupid and tend to "see what they want to see" with a fly pattern. I think the sparse wing provides enough, but not too much to seem artificial if that makes sense.
My hands froze and were tomatoes, but you can stand there like a goon and pull out fish on nearly every cast.
I hate winter -- I think I'll drive to Covington tomorrow, get trapped on the other side of the stream, and have to run up the Gathright steps while Beth meets me at the top . Then we'll speed off without anyone seeing our license plate! Wait, that was last September! "Government officials only" ---suckers!
Gene
PS -- if adding lead eyes to a bucktail fly that people were fishing for X years with bead chain and calling it after yourself is par-for-the-course with fly fishing people, consider me a meat-fishing, tenkara guy!
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