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Replacing the deer wing with snowshoe rabbit on a few patterns might be
worth a try.


Steve (who just had an idea)


Not sure if it what you had in mind Steve, but after your earlier rant about
snowshoe feet, I tied up a "snowshoe caddis" version of the CDC Loopwing
caddis (which is more or less an EHC without the palmered hackle and with
CDC rather than deer hair from what I can see), using a snowshoe wing rather
than CDC. I added a little folded feather overwing and a dubbed showshoe
head. Very simple tie and the fly floated a treat and caught fish after fish
without having to be dried - unlike CDC. Useful things these rabbits feet. I
will be interested to see if someone has idears for dyeing it. I was
interested in trying this myself but I worry a bit about boiling the feet
seems more like soup making than dyeing.

Vaughan