I have to rant for a moment!! I just got the current issue of Fly Tyer in the
mail yesterday, and one of the features is an AK Best design of a "hovering
cranefly".
Now, old A.K. claims he sweated over this one for a couple years, but there is
ABSOLUTELY no functional difference from a classic Catskill Variant. See
Flick's
instructions for the Grey Fox Variant, and the final fly. All A.K. does is make
use of, and liberally plug, Whiting's Coq de Leon feathers. A similar type of
article/
advertisement trend seems to be creeping into Fly Tyer as a whole....The result
is a lot of re-inventing the Wheel, wrapping it in some tyer's ego and foisting
on the public. Rant mode off......
Tom