[Speyducer]

Inspired by Garry's recent post of his wonderful conversion of the Logie from featherwing to mixed wing, I have taken this a few steps on;

I started with the thoughts of using natural red fox, but only have fox squirrel, and used an underwing of yellow dyed arctic fox tail, and fox squirrel on top;

Also, as I will be fishing these flies locally, I tied these on Partridge Salar doubles CS14/2G in gold size 9:

I made a schoolboy error with the first one, the body silk colours being not that of the Logie, but it seemed to work OK:



I then went on to correct the body work, with the same hairwing subs:



I then had a thought to go with a mixed wing, using BM over the yellow fox, and adding some crystal flash within the wing:



I then morphed the tie using hot orange arctic instead of the yellow (now no longer a 'Logie');



but after a few more ties, I went back to the yellow fox underwing:



and I ended up with 20 ties that sat happily as a family of variants in the wallet:



A couple of these did had the odd strand of black and/or crystal flash in or over the wing

Looking to swim these in the summer


Mike

 

[Draggerman]

Very nice,love the flies and the hooks

 

[Bwana Bill]

Great set, Mike! It's always fun to play with a pattern that way.

Love all the variants!

-Bill

 

[GR8LAKES FLYER]

Nice work Mike


Mike

 

[Back Eddy]

From another Double Lover

Sw.......................eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

 

[Hardyreels]

Hi Mike,

You covered all the bases there I'd think. All except some tube variations so......

I'll watch for those,

Ard

 

[gt05254]

Wow, what a fleet, very cool!
Gary

 

[Honyuk96]

Nice looking soldiers.

 

[fish0n4evr]

Tight-squad Mike. You've got quite the way with those little doubles.

 

[MZilliox]

cool little set of doubles. lots of personality

 

[hitcher]

Love small doubles!!!
These look like they'll see salar teeth!!
Nice tying as always !

 

[Speyducer]

Thanks for the encouragement, guys!

These will be swung in the lower flows of the summer Dee, in Scotland, this year! Hoping for a fresh grabby grilse


Mike