While i have been roaming streams for far too many years now, I really didn't fish large variants until last Fall. My, was that fun...Many of the natives
just startled me.
I really enjoy Leonard Wright and he loved the GFV , as he called it (Gray Fox variant)- he liked them on a #14 or #16 light dry hook - standard length.
Can they always be so much fun - it was fourth of July in November?
And any tying tricks - I use the last 1/4 of some good largish dry fly hackles (maybe 3 of them) for a #14 - with today's Genetic hackles - are there better hackles for spiders and variants out there? Wright mentions in Superior Flies that one can trim the bottom 1/4 of the hackles and have a better casting variant and a better representation?
Well, I am just sitting here waiting for the March Browns and Crane Flies to arrive...
NB
I really enjoy Leonard Wright and he loved the GFV , as he called it (Gray Fox variant)- he liked them on a #14 or #16 light dry hook - standard length.
Can they always be so much fun - it was fourth of July in November?
And any tying tricks - I use the last 1/4 of some good largish dry fly hackles (maybe 3 of them) for a #14 - with today's Genetic hackles - are there better hackles for spiders and variants out there? Wright mentions in Superior Flies that one can trim the bottom 1/4 of the hackles and have a better casting variant and a better representation?
Well, I am just sitting here waiting for the March Browns and Crane Flies to arrive...
NB
