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• ScottP Senior Member Posts: 480 Senior Member

  March 2012 #2

  I usually put a tail on them since I mainly fish them as a mayfly but they both work
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Regards,
  Scott

  They say the times are changing but I just don't know

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• rvrwader Member Posts: 42 Member

  March 2012 #3

  Well looks like I need to tie up a few of each. Some for Mayflies and some for caddis.

  Well, I aint always right but I've never been wrong.....
  
  
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• Juliet Posts: 0

  March 2012 #4

  I tye them both ways. I should tye them with a tail all the time. It's easyer to bite the tail off while you are on the river, than it is to tie a tail on.
  
  
  
  
  

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• Don Newton Senior Member Posts: 431 Senior Member

  March 2012 #5

  Either or eIther is correct.

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• Juliet Posts: 0

  March 2012 #6

  Yeah, mayflies get tails, caddis don't.

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• NZ Indicator Senior Member Posts: 9,910 Senior Member

  March 2012 #7

  Tails.
  
  Take out that peacock herl thorax and substitute a small black tungsten bead in some. Gets it down a little further and has saved many a fishing trip for me in the past.

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• rvrwader Member Posts: 42 Member

  March 2012 #8

  OK I have to ask Dubbn. Why BITE the tails off? Wouldn't it be easier to use your nippers? LOL

  Well, I aint always right but I've never been wrong.....
  
  
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• Juliet Posts: 0

  March 2012 #9

  What are nippers? LOL I do tend to bite them off. Dont know why, but I do :-)
  
  Add a bead? Nah, now the fly is rendered one dimensional. Keep the Peacock, slide a bead above the fly on your tippet, or add splitshot. Now I can use one fly in the entire water column. Just my opinion.
  
  

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