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Title: Re-inventing the wheel
Post by: Sandy Nelson on 19/11/2006 at 21:50

What a surprise :shock:

have been browsing the net and found lots of cool info and piccies about north country spiders.
Guess what?

Remember my partridge and peacock spider, turns out, unsurprisingly, that it was done in 1823 and called a Prismire ant.
A bit before my time.
But then i wonder under how many different names this pattern could appear as.
A challenge :grin:

Sandy

Title: Re-inventing the wheel
Post by: Mike Barrio on 20/11/2006 at 01:05

Are you saying that you've nicked somebody else's pattern then?  :lol:

Mike

Title: Re-inventing the wheel
Post by: Irvine Ross on 20/11/2006 at 17:36

Bet you didn't find an old pattern for the Half Nelson. They didn't have pearl tinsel in 1823.   :z4

Irvine

Title: Re-inventing the wheel
Post by: Sandy Nelson on 20/11/2006 at 20:28

I wasn't the only one to "nick it"
 :lol:
I've had a good rake and Sylvester Nemes created the same fly too in the late 60's/early 70's across in montana.He called his Syl's Midge.

The weird thing is we all seem to have plumped for lightolive/yellowish thread. :cool:

Sandy