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Old December 6th, 2007, 09:41 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
mdk77[_2_]
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Default Crackleback vs. Griffith's Gnat (another newbie question)

On Dec 6, 3:22 pm, Mike wrote:
On 6 Dec, 21:44, mdk77 wrote:

I'm beginning the process of tying my flies for next season, which
will be my 2nd season of fly fishing. One place I'm planning on
fishing for Rainbow & Brown trout next season has two flies on the
"recommended list" that look kind of similar to my newbie eyes:


Cracklebacks: http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flyt...80502fotw.html


Griffith's Gnats: http://hipwader.com/2004/tying-griffiths-gnat-pattern


Are these different enough to make it worth my while to tie both? My
gut feeling is that this is probably a real stupid question, but hey,
how do you learn if you don't ask...


No idea, but if you want an easy way to dress the Griffith´s Gnat;

http://thomaszuellich.de/Fliegendose/griffiths_e.html

TL
MC


Thanks Mike. That's a neat site. I liked this link from that site (a
page of fly patterns):
http://www.danica.com/flytier/hweile...weilenmann.htm