One of the add-on features (and, in my opinion, benefits) to fly fishing is designing and tying your own flies. Witness the attached collection of nymphs that I have designed and, as recently as this weekend, improved. The first three of these shots are of mayfly nymphs that I have created for fishing right out back on Rock Creek (when you design a fly you get to name it, so these are called “Rock Creek Rogues”), added to which this weekend was an epoxy-like material (you can see the left overs in the first photo dried on my ritzy cardboard holder) to give their wingback cases a hardened shell and three dimensional look; the last is of caddis fly pupas (self-named, “Pop’s Pupas”) which use the clear-coated material to give the underlying hook-strung beads a true three dimensional, really cool aura—these are my newest design.
Next step is to see what the trout think of ‘em!!
RCR---<’///:><
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