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<TABLE border=1 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=100%><TR><TD nowrap width=100% valign=top><FONT face=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica size=1>Originator: Whitefish</FONT></TD><TD nowrap valign=top><FONT face=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica size=1>Date: 8/23/2000 5:13 PM</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE border=0 cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 width=100% bgcolor=#FFFFFF><TR><TD><FONT face=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica size=2><DIV>Hey speygal...last winter in Seattle at the winter sports show, you were tying a great GP pattern using Arctic fox I think...do you have a recipe?</DIV></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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<TABLE border=1 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=100%><TR><TD nowrap width=100% valign=top><FONT face=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica size=1>Originator: Per Stadigh</FONT></TD><TD nowrap valign=top><FONT face=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica size=1>Date: 8/23/2000 9:50 PM</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE border=0 cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 width=100% bgcolor=#FFFFFF><TR><TD><FONT face=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica size=2><DIV><P>Sorry to cut in ahead of &quot;Speygal&quot;:</P><P>Here in Scandinavia we have used Artic Fox hair since the mid -80's, and it probably is the most common hair in today's flies for Atlantic Salmon.</P><P>I have used white ditto with good effect in my Green Butt Skunks, then mixed with a bit of pearlescent flash.</P><P>As for GP variants my favorite is one I made up in 1987 - easy to remember as that was a real bumper year Norway. Being a mixture in colors of two famous patterns (GP and Thunder&amp;Lightning) I named it &quot;<STRONG>General Thunder&quot;</STRONG>:<STRONG></STRONG></P><UL><LI><STRONG>Tail: </STRONG>Natural red GP bodyfeather tied in with concave side up (2/3 the length of the body), small bunch of hot orange Polar bear or Bucktail mixed with a few strands of pearlescent crystal&nbsp; (2x the body length), followed by a fatter and well tapered bunch of hot orange Artic fox tail with guardhairs (1 - 1 1/2x the body length). Tie it in in a reverse fashion - pointing towards the head with the &quot;stump&quot; pointing to the rear. Trim the &quot;stump&quot; short and fold the wing back and secure it with a few tight wraps. <EM>(This is common drill when working with arctic fox - it secures the wing safely with relatively few wraps and also helps to add volume to the wing.TRY!!) C</EM>over the tail with an identical GP bodyfeather, concave side down. (Here one can add eyes - two small black glass beads glued to each end of a piece of mono twice the length of the body. Fold and tie in.) Finally wrap a longfibred hot orange cock hackle around the root of the tail. This should be doubled to let the fibres point backwards.</LI><LI><STRONG>Body (</STRONG>Identical for both body segments) Black seals wool dubbed to creata a rather fat and shabby body. Followed by oval gold (medium) tinsel.</LI><LI><STRONG>2nd Wing</STRONG>: same GP body feathers and artic fox as in tail. Should reach halfways down the rear GP feather. Again followed by hot orange cock's hackle. This wing should sit just forward of the body's center point.</LI><LI><STRONG>Body </STRONG>as above&nbsp;</LI><LI><STRONG>1st wing: </STRONG>repeat the above but make it shorter still. Finally finnish off with a Kingfisher Blue cocks hackle.</LI></UL><P>It is a complicated fly - but also a real killer. The darker color and the blue hackle, that actually highlights the orange, seams to appeal atlantics far more than the plain orange original. You Steelheaders might want to try the the front hackle in purple......?</P><P>Puh!</P><P>Per&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P></DIV></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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<TABLE border=1 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=100%><TR><TD nowrap width=100% valign=top><FONT face=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica size=1>Originator: andy wren</FONT></TD><TD nowrap valign=top><FONT face=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica size=1>Date: 8/15/2001 9:39 PM</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE border=0 cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 width=100% bgcolor=#FFFFFF><TR><TD><FONT face=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica size=2><DIV>Try this ,over here on atreble but youguys would do it on a single or perhaps adouble , its a Ally,s varient but it works , best on a British made Esmond Drury hook . Tie in at head a purple cock /hen hackle whilst windindown the shank catch in some skinny oval silver atail of purple buck tail with 3/4 strands of flashabou /twinkle , add some varnish wind back too the hackle catchin some wide pearly tinsel , wind down to tail and back ,tie of rib with the oval , wind hackle , add as a flat wing purple dyed tippet over purple bucktail or in smaler sizes purple grey squirrel , A whp finish a touch of varnish "e vola a silk cut shrimp " Great for atlantics + I think for winter steelys , theres a shrimpy &lt;irish style version > coming up . Not quite perfected yet . Have fun fishing dont forget the sun block __skin cancer Kills .. Andy.C ,</DIV></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>