Wayne Knight wrote:
Peter A. Collin wrote:


I am doing some winter tying. Having made all of my most used

patterns,

I want to get into some more extic stuff. Does anybody have much
experience with synthetic materials used for a grasshopper wing? I

have

always used turkey, but believe that a synthetic would give me a

neater,

trimmer profile that I want. Any suggestions?


if God had meant for synthetic anything to be used on a trout fly, he
would have made roosters out of graphite and elk out of fiberglass.
Screw the synthetic stuff, use real feathers. g

Ah, but I will never let go of my Antron yarn for LaFontaine Caddis!