the Canon's Beard.

This is my second season fishing snoeshoe rabbit feet downunder and
I've been having a great time using them on the local fish (in flies of
course .

The classic Usual has been great and although originally designed as a
caddis fly, in the right size they pass for a spinner. The orange
thread showing through whe the fly is wet. The thing that
has surprised most is the visibility of the wing during the evening
rise and on into dusk ... 's been good there as well.

We have a lot of green midge in our rivers. The Canon's Beard is a
midge imitation with the body
of a Greenwell's Glory (hence the name) and a wing of snoeshoe rabbit
foot. Tied in 18-20, it takes the smooth water sippers pretty well
down here.
(Body: primrose thread treated with beeswax, gold wire rib
Wing: more of a blob than a wing, short, dense, fan. Tied in the
manner Tom Littleton describes here in a)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R6A22338C - thanks again Tom : ).



Steve

Stephen Welsh wrote:
This is my second season fishing snoeshoe rabbit feet downunder and
I've been having a great time using them on the local fish (in flies of
course .

The classic Usual has been great and although originally designed as a
caddis fly, in the right size they pass for a spinner. The orange
thread showing through whe the fly is wet. The thing that
has surprised most is the visibility of the wing during the evening
rise and on into dusk ... 's been good there as well.

We have a lot of green midge in our rivers. The Canon's Beard is a
midge imitation with the body
of a Greenwell's Glory (hence the name) and a wing of snoeshoe rabbit
foot. Tied in 18-20, it takes the smooth water sippers pretty well
down here.
(Body: primrose thread treated with beeswax, gold wire rib
Wing: more of a blob than a wing, short, dense, fan. Tied in the
manner Tom Littleton describes here in a)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R6A22338C - thanks again Tom : ).



Steve


Steve,
You don't happen to have a picture of that midge imitation by any
chance? I followed the link and can likely figure it out but a picture
would be a lot easier...
As you suggest, I use snowshoe for a few variants of emerger and adult
caddis and it works well as a dubbed thorax for small no-hackle hairwing
duns but trying to tie a little bundle on for a #20 midge wing must be a
bugger.

Vaughan

I don't have any pics of this at present, Vaughn ... I'll see what I
can do.

Steve

Stephen Welsh wrote:
I don't have any pics of this at present, Vaughn ... I'll see what I
can do.

Steve

Thanks Steve. No fuss if you do not have a pic, I will figure out the
amounts and balance by the 10th fly... Sounds like it would make a good
flat water grayling fly.

Vaughan

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Stephen Welsh wrote:
I don't have any pics of this at present, Vaughn ... I'll see what I
can do.

Steve

Thanks Steve. No fuss if you do not have a pic, I will figure out the
amounts and balance by the 10th fly... Sounds like it would make a good
flat water grayling fly.

Vaughan


Hey Vaughan:
Enjoying those dark nights (and days)? Why aren't you joining us in NZ?

--riverman

riverman wrote:
wrote in message
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Stephen Welsh wrote:
I don't have any pics of this at present, Vaughn ... I'll see what I
can do.

Steve
Thanks Steve. No fuss if you do not have a pic, I will figure out the
amounts and balance by the 10th fly... Sounds like it would make a good
flat water grayling fly.

Vaughan


Hey Vaughan:
Enjoying those dark nights (and days)? Why aren't you joining us in NZ?

--riverman



Grumble bloody grumble................ so-called friends going off to NZ
leaving me in the frozen wastes.......you would think they could have
some sodding consideration and at least not tell me about it.....grumble
mutter..... I would have loved to join you Myron but the timing sucks. I
am still waiting to see if I managed to con some nice folk in Sydney
into pay for me to visit for a job interview. Its summer. They have been
a bit slow to get organised so I miss your trip........ I had thought
the timing was going to overlap and as I also hope to go to Rotarua on
the way back to finish up some research it might have worked out. Next
time perhaps.

How has the far-east worked out for you? Good I hope.
cheers

Vaughan

Hope these help Vaughn.

(1) http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~steve/images/cc2.jpg (50k) shows
half a dozen on a two-bob piece (florin)

(2) http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~steve/images/ccpair2.jpg (190k)
shows two a bit closer together.

Tied on 20's mustad 80250, the upper fly in (2) is before trimming. I
leave some like this for better visibility ... most endup like the
lower fly though.



Steve

Stephen Welsh wrote:
Hope these help Vaughn.

(1) http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~steve/images/cc2.jpg (50k) shows
half a dozen on a two-bob piece (florin)

(2) http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~steve/images/ccpair2.jpg (190k)
shows two a bit closer together.

Tied on 20's mustad 80250, the upper fly in (2) is before trimming. I
leave some like this for better visibility ... most endup like the
lower fly though.



Steve

Thanks Steve, that helps. My concern was how to avoid a fat tie-in bump
for the wing on such a small fly but if I see it right you tie in a
sparse bunch on top and then pull both ends up with some wraps around
the base to make the tuft. Trim and fish.... Looks easy and effective!

cheers

Vaughan

That's about it Vaughan.

Even easier: tying the material down parallel with the shank (as
opposed to across the shank) results in the 'fan' wing laying along the
shank (rather than across it).


Steve