Recommendations for Filling a Box to Practice Tying

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1 hour ago, Nick Adams said:

Nothing is more frustrating than watching a trout hot a strike indicator. They'll sniff the heck out of every dry in my box and strike, but slowly drift up and take a white palsa... ugh!

Tie up anything that floats in a football shape around a size 12 and watch trout eat it....

[fishinwrench]

I believe that contrast in a fly is an element worthy of the added step of a wing on a dryfly, or the herl on a crackleback.   It either does one of two things.....it either causes a fish to move closer to the fly, or it causes a fish that has moved closer, to go ahead and eat it. 

Tie a Griffiths gnat with anything other than grizzly hackle and see how many takes you get, compared to one WITH grizzly hackle.  Or skip the darker thorax on a nymph. 

 Contrast simulates movement to a fish.   The fly appears to be "breathing" maybe.      To each their own, but all of the best/most productive flys we use have an element of contrast.  Omit at your own risk. 😉

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2 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Omit at your own risk. 😉

Ok.  Thanks👍

[tjm]

Tie any Gnats with black hackle over the plain herl body?

I tied some "Griffiths Gnats" = woolly worms = Palmers with orange floss bodies and dun hackle that caught too many trout one time, so I quit using that dun hackle.

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9 hours ago, tjm said:

Tie any Gnats with black hackle over the plain herl body?

I tied some "Griffiths Gnats" = woolly worms = Palmers with orange floss bodies and dun hackle that caught too many trout one time, so I quit using that dun hackle.

I tie one with a green crystal flash body and grizzly hackle that is a staple in my box.