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Roy
12-28-2010, 04:28 PM
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ud3ewBpURd4/TRpPJWoY4-I/AAAAAAAAAE0/1t3ioAOqh1U/s320/Greenwell.png

jw_sartini
12-31-2010, 10:58 PM
that's a fine tie roy! i really like the wings upright position and i'm sure it imitates an emerger very well. that's a unique style.

jmeyerc
03-22-2011, 05:12 PM
Nice fly Roy, are they Starling, Blackbird or Duck wings? they look a bit like Starling but am probably wrong.

Jeanne

Alpinefly
03-22-2011, 05:15 PM
Very nicely tied Catskill !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Starling is what is usually used for the wings !!!!!!!!!

jmeyerc
03-22-2011, 05:22 PM
Thanks Alpinefly, am trying to find a Greenwell's Glory pattern; and that the wings are Starling makes it easier to guess the rest of it by the picture.

Jeanne

BrkTrt
03-22-2011, 06:33 PM
Roy,

Very nice. Clean and crisp in the Catskill style.


Brk Trt

Roy
03-27-2011, 04:37 AM
Thanks, guys,
this fly is tied in what I think is the original form.
The recipe is the original, tied on a hook which may match the shape of the original -
yellow silk, heavily treated in black wax,
coch-y-bondhu hackle,
blackbird(female secondary) wing, starling is a recognised substitute,
I have added a rib as that is the standard variant, where it was not on the original.
This fly works almost everywhere for trout.