any tips/suggestions for tying small flies
I have been hard at work at the bench lately. Tying lots of buggers, caddis pupa and pt nymphs...
I need to fill some spots in my flybox with small dries and am having fits working with size 22 and 24 hooks.
Any tips or suggestions you folks might have for tying small griffiths gnats or adams?
Smallest dry I tied last year was a size 18 usual...and they are ugly.
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FYI, a Hackle Gage (sp) such as that put out by Whiting is a great tool when it comes to proper fly Proportion (sold in Feathercraft Catalogue). Many of us Oldtimers still think our eyes are best at sizing hackles though. lol You will find that the Catskill Patterns have a sparse Hackle, and the Western Dry Fly Patterns are more heavily Hackled (Faster Water out West). BTW,
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