On Apr 4, 11:15*am, "Tom Littleton" wrote:

Then, carefully clip the body fur down to a tapered shape sort of suggestive
of a fish body: fatter in front, tapering to the rear. Tie and cement head
and you are done.


If I remember, I used ram's wool ( not in a loop ). I think the
exact shaping was my failing. The ones I bought never seemed to turn
on the side and always 'pumped' the tail in an exciting way,
regardless of angler input ... mine simply didn't ride the water as
well, wanting to twist ... nor did they produce action that seemed to
come from within the fly, as opposed to from the retrieve ... they
worked but not with the same degree of "art"

I'm not a streamer guy, as a rule, but that is one that I like and
enjoyed fishing ( hooked, but didn't land a nice fish near ... I
swear this is what I remember .. the prison ( jail?, county court
house? ) 'below town' on the LeTort I also caught some fish on
midges further up right around Fox's house and the freeway bridge, as
well as at the Marinaro bench area.

I enjoyed fishing such 'historical' fly fishing water.