I seem to be (almost) the only one posting to this newsgroup.
There are a lot of fly tiers out there, and there are (so far) no
insult fests
in this group. You'd think it would get more traffic.

Here (link below) is a forgotten fly that still works. This got me
thinking about forgotten flies.
I'm going to make a bunch this summer, and see if they still work:

The Bi-Visible, Renegade, Gray Hackle Yellow, Professor and Red-tagged
Woolly
Worm are flies that used to be in every shop in Montana--that you
never see
anymore. #18 Renegades work well during Tryco hatches (a mentor just
told me
that yesterday) and you can see them, which isn't necessarily so with
the more
realistic imitations the shops sell now.

..........another forgotten fly:

http://montana-riverboats.com/Pages/...mes/index.html