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So, for what it's worth:



Is this really the direction we want this forum to take? G


I tried pretty hard for a couple years of damsel action to make a 'wiggler'
in size 14 to fish during damsel migrations, but I could never come up with
a 'lip' that I could consistently get to work on that small of a fly.

Suggestions? If you watch damsel nymphs heading to shore to emerge they
"move a whole lot" but don't get anywhere very fast ... and that 'internal
motion' is key to a really dynamite pattern/presentation. I have an
effective pattern/strip combination that outfishes most people around me at
such times, but a way to get more 'internal wiggle' would make it that much
better.

FWIW, I think a Dahlberg Diver is pretty much the same deal ... i.e. an
effort to imitate a spinning lure's action and I don't see them snubbed by
editors and other snobs