The name of a pale blue angling fly?

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 at 20:43:15 in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly Wayne
Harrison wrote:

"W. D. Grey" wrote

As Mike says, in the UK this is an old Northern standard pattern serving
as a representation of the Iron Blue dun. A hackled fly always fished wet.

the Dark Watchet is alsoe know by other names viz.

Iron Blue Dun
Little Iron Blue
Little Water-hen (when wings are needed the breast feather of the water
hen are used)
Little dark Dun

and, as any welshman worth his salt would know, is called, formally,
*paraleptophlebia adoptiva*.

yfitons
wayno(surprisingly, they are seen in numbers on big snowbird in late march,
early april.)

Dear Wayne

That might well be the species that you call Iron Blue Dun but the
species that we in Wales know as Iron Blue Dun is Baetis Muticus...

http://www.fishing-in-wales.com/advice/flylife.htm

Although in other parts of the UK I think the name also applies to
Baetis Niger, Baetis Pumilus and Baetis Digitatus.

Just to complicate matters I think some of these have been re-named in
recent years and the following are also now in use: Nigrobaetis Niger,
Nigrobaetis Digitatus and Alainites Muticus...

How big is your species..? Ours is small - about 7mm..

--
Nogood Boyo

"Nogood Boyo" wrote

Dear Wayne

That might well be the species that you call Iron Blue Dun but the species
that we in Wales know as Iron Blue Dun is Baetis Muticus...


How big is your species..? Ours is small - about 7mm..


while i don't know nothin' 'bout no mms', i use a size 16 to imitate our
"blue dun". that would seem to make ours larger, right?

yfitons
wayno

In article , Wayne
Harrison writes

"Nogood Boyo" wrote

Dear Wayne

That might well be the species that you call Iron Blue Dun but the species
that we in Wales know as Iron Blue Dun is Baetis Muticus...


How big is your species..? Ours is small - about 7mm..


while i don't know nothin' 'bout no mms', i use a size 16 to imitate our
"blue dun". that would seem to make ours larger, right?

yfitons
wayno



I used to tie our Blue Dun or iron Blue dun on a size 14 or 16 so maybe
they're the same size in spite of our language difference

yofinsw.
--
Bill Grey
http://www.billboy.co.uk

"W. D. Grey" wrote

yofinsw.

up the 24th foot! (south wales borderers)

yfitons
wayno (proud to note that my great great grandfather shot his toe off near
the end of the war between the states, just to come home to rowan county.)

In article , Wayne Harrison
writes
yfitons
wayno (proud to note that my great great grandfather shot his toe off near
the end of the war between the states, just to come home to rowan county.)

How proud would you be if he'd shot his bloody foot off?..:-)

yofisw
--
Bill Grey
http://www.billboy.co.uk