ryguyfi
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I think one of the best things about tying your own flies is creating something different. Whether it's a completely new pattern or just a tweak on an existing pattern. What do you do different?
One thing I've been playing with lately is on my spinner patterns. I tie a catskill style dry, but tie in a small piece of foam and pull it over the top like a flash back. This serves as a bright sighter for me. So my sulphurs have an orange "backpack" on them. Then I clip the bottom of the hackle for the spinner. I use a hackle about 2 sizes bigger than normal. I thought I had this idea all to myself and then found it elsewhere about a year after I started using it. This year I'm also playing with a UV post material for this as well. So for my brown drakes that I fish past dark, planning to charge up the material to glow and see if I can see it better. I'll let you know how that goes at the end of May.
One thing I've been playing with lately is on my spinner patterns. I tie a catskill style dry, but tie in a small piece of foam and pull it over the top like a flash back. This serves as a bright sighter for me. So my sulphurs have an orange "backpack" on them. Then I clip the bottom of the hackle for the spinner. I use a hackle about 2 sizes bigger than normal. I thought I had this idea all to myself and then found it elsewhere about a year after I started using it. This year I'm also playing with a UV post material for this as well. So for my brown drakes that I fish past dark, planning to charge up the material to glow and see if I can see it better. I'll let you know how that goes at the end of May.