sniperfreak223
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found some old orvis literature my grandfather left me, probably late 70's or early 80's, but found a pattern that was really interesting to me. They called it a "waterwalker", basically a hybrid between a hairwing standard hackle dry fly and a parachute, with upright divided deerhair wings with a hackle tied parachute style around the base of each wing, I immediately tied up a few, in "adams Wulff" garb(bark deerhair tail and wings, gray body and mixed brown/grizzly hackle), and when I dropped one on my desk, I was amazed...it's nearly impossible to make one land wrong, they always land perfectly upright! Even when dropped upside down, they bounce on the hairwing and upright themselves. They are a bit of a challenge to tie, but may be well worth your efforts to try. Can't wait to get mine on the water...